But his latest series, the rollicking A Thousand Blows, is good enough to break the curse.
Malachi Kirby as Hezekiah Moscow (Photo: Robert Viglasky/Disney)
But Hezekiah also makes friends among the Forty Elephants, a gang of thieving women led by Mary Carr (Erin Doherty, excellent and a million miles from her role as Princess Anne in The Crown). She is preoccupied by her current plans to steal from the Queen herself, intercepting very expensive gifts from Her Maj to a visiting delegation from China.
Still, this six-parter stands on its own two feet and never feels derivative or unimaginative. As usual, Knight uses real historic people and stories from which to weave his own web and this version of 1880s London heaves with life (though the Disney mega-budget does give a certain unwelcome gloss to the otherwise meticulously designed sets). Each character, from the Chinese hotel proprietor to the Harrods shop assistant desperate to join the Elephants to the local communist agitator, gets their own inner worlds and storylines fleshed out, somehow without overcomplicating the plot.
Erin Doherty as Mary Carr (Photo: Disney)Indeed, a second series has already been made and there is a sense that these first episodes are just the preliminary building blocks to a greater story. As Hezekiah makes his way up the ranks of the international boxing world, Mary struggles to keep her grip on her marauding madams and Sugar’s anger spirals to new heights, there are plenty of ways this story can go. I can see A Thousand Blows being on our televisions for years to come.
‘A Thousand Blows’ is streaming on Disney+
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