Production Company: CBS Studios, Imagine Television Studios, Universal TelevisionĮxecutive Producers: Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Dan Brown, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Samie Kim Falvey, Anna Culp, John Weber, Frank Siracusa, Dan Trachtenberg New episodes of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol premiere Thursdays on Peacock.ĭeveloped By: Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie And if future episodes iron out these kinks, there could be something quite fun here. If you’ve enjoyed any of the Robert Langdon series, The Lost Symbol is well worth a watch. These first three episodes show a lot of promise. But I think it could be a deeply enjoyable binge-watch once the season ends. I’m not sure how well this show will play week-to-week. It’s a fun action-adventure thriller that’s unafraid to embrace the absurdity of its ideas. But it’s hard not to get wrapped up in the story, enjoying the journey wherever it ends up taking you.ĭespite its flaws, I’m enjoying The Lost Symbol for what it is. Sure, the pacing is a little wonky, and it doesn’t feel like we’re any closer to an answer three episodes in. There’s plenty of screen time and money to spend on really diving into the story. Robert Langdon feels right at home on a streaming service. What I can say, though, is that these first three episodes are an entertaining, if flawed, beginning to what could be an endlessly captivating mystery. So, I can’t speak to how faithful this adaptation is to the book.
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I’ve never read any of the Robert Langdon books, and I’ve only seen The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. But as it stands right now, the character of Robert Langdon ranks among the least compelling aspects of the show. Perhaps the show will delve into Langdon’s character more in future episodes, and I hope it does. It’s just that the version of Langdon he’s playing is devoid of any real charm. He’s doing a great job – as is the entire cast. This isn’t a critique of Zukerman’s performance or anything. It seems, perhaps, that all of the character’s charm in the movies might solely be because of Tom Hanks’ inherent likeability overshadowing the character’s inherent dislikeability.
He’s pretty awful to everyone he knows, and that doesn’t seem to change at all over the three episodes. Zukerman’s Langdon, unfortunately, is afforded none of this development. But if the show leans into the ambiguity of where her allegiances lie, there could be a lot of fun to be had.
Both characters are fairly one-dimensional, but they’re likable and it feels like they’ve both got a lot of room to develop into fuller characters. Curry’s Katherine and Gonzalez’s Nunez fare the best here. However, this expanded runtime does allow for a little bit more character exploration than you might find in the Langdon movies – particularly for the supporting characters. It’s hard to be invested when you can’t quite follow how the characters are figuring out each piece of the puzzle. And while all of this exposition does help the plot make some semblance of sense, it’s done in the clunkiest way possible. Usually, Langdon explains the intricacies of whatever puzzle/code/arcane artifact being examined to Katherine and/or Nunez – and, by association, the audience. The show spends a lot of its expanded runtime on exposition. The Langdon movies had this problem, and the show doesn’t entirely escape it either. This kind of symbology and codebreaking always goes over my head. And speaking of the mystery, unless you’ve got the skills of Robert Langdon, I’m not sure how any viewer would go about solving this mystery.
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