Kos the new Venture from Charlie cell the creator of Channel 4 drama series the end of the fking world is anything but chaotic multi-stranded immaculately paced and plotted it's a imagining of Greek mythology that is subtle and intricate witty rigorous hugely intelligent funny and brutal it flies kaval script is a masterpiece a so confident so apparently effortless so light on its Fete as it builds an alternative modern world in which pantheism and Zeus still rules and gods mix with Mortals rarely to good ends the Eight Episodes are stuff with action jokes however much events staren as we go on and Grace notes a huge cast of characters is deployed without a single one feeling underdeveloped or unnecessary with Cal using them to interrogate what it means to be human to have power to be desperate to have free will or not they are all folded seamlessly into to its furiously fun Embrace I can give you no better a or certainly no shorter a indication of the overall tone of the thing than to say that Jeff Goldblum plays Zeus white suited and debir he swaggers happily around his sprawling Palace and Gardens on Mount Olympus until the day a new monument to him in Creed is publicly unveiled and found to have been desecrated by a gang of Trojans then he finds a new wrinkle on his forehead that he decides must be the Fulfillment of the first part of a prophecy that will see his Reign end and Chaos rule instead all of his neurosis and insecurities begin to flare to such a degree that within a few episodes it feels like quite the departure in its vulnerability for gold Blum best known for roles based on impregnable cool as he plots Vengeance on Humanity his wife Queen and sister as an asterisk on screen caption notes Here at a suitably magisterial Janet MC tries to encourage him to to keep his dignity and the ding out of punishments and the investigation the initially unseen narrator of events turns out to be Prometheus Steven delain a former friend current prisoner chained to a rock liver eternally pecked at by an eagle it's all coming back to you now and IM mortal enemy of Zeus he is doing his best to bring about the Fulfillment of the prophecy ASAP helped by various unwitting humans down on Earth and residents of the underworld this is overseen by David with Fus as Hades which would have been an equally good way of queuing you into the tone of the thing now that I think about it youry known as r or or AAR is about to break up with her devoted drar boyfriend orus Kian Scott when she is killed in a car accident and finds herself on a literal fery across the sticks with the help or hindrance at the God of Pleasure being something of a monarch chaos Merchant himself of dianis NAB ran or Morpheus sets salt to bring her back from the underworld via some heartbreaking scenes involving the couple seeking their dead son such moments are scattered throughout the series whenever you are in danger of enjoying it as a mere romp reminding us that the ancient myths deal and hard Eternal truths as well as allowing us to laugh at gods and Mortals shagging about and getting changed into bees for their trouble while orus fights to reach his beloved however she is busy forging a connection with Kus missia Butler and discovering even worse things about their new home than you might imagine for the underworld there was much much else unfolding two ready to be knitted together in the fullness of time by koval's skilled hands AR Adney Lea Farid is uncovering the treachery of her father Minos while dadless Matt Fraser is feeding something of monstrous mean down in a sort of a broken bar labyrinthine prison beneath their palace Billy Piper plays Cassandra all but destroyed by the burden of forever being ignored and disbelieved Medusa deie Mazar is waiting in the wings the Medusa an endworld newcomer asks in Celebrity stricken a she lets a snake out from under her headdress to prove it the fan is thrilled and there is just about everyone else you'd find in a classical education Andor a children's book of myths and legends two love stories tumble over treacheries while scenes dance along the edge of Comedy tragedy just ask Zeus's Bal boys and the fates and Furies Spike people's and divinity's wheels you don't know quite but the next twist or turn may be but you know that it will be funny profound moving a or all three a as well as being as compelling and rewarding as you could wish it's an absolute Triumph a thank kaval and