OnHouse, Hugh Laurie gave unquestionably the single most imitated TV performance of the new millennium.
Now Laurie and Mol are at the center ofChance, Hulus new binge-friendly suspense thriller.
Laurie is Eldon Chance, a forensics neuropsychiatrist in San Francisco who is struggling through an expensive divorce.
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Mol is Jaclyn Blackstone, a battered housewife battling a ravenously sexual dual personality named Jackie Black.
Eldon falls for her.
When a blond woman in San Francisco has two personalities, you probably shouldnt trust either one.
Hulu seems to encourage experimentation in its original programming.
(Casualstarted as an internet-age rom-com and became a thrillingly bleak dark comedy of psychological dysfunction.
The supporting cast helps.
As Jaclyns mysterious husband, Paul Adelstein gives a clever performance, half congenial and half murderous.
And then theres Ethan Suplee as D, a straight-faced monster-man who speaks softly but carries a tomahawk.
These are fun characters.
Its boring, but there are flashes of suspenseful brilliance.
Theres a revelation in episode 3 that adds a new shade to Lauries paranoid performance.
And Mol brings humanity to what couldve been Hitchcock pastiche.
Youre pretty sure Jaclyn is lying but you want to know why.
The whole show is tantalizing like that.
Im hooked onChance, but only because I want to know why Im hooked onChance.B
