{"id":5287,"date":"2026-07-19T17:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:07:24","slug":"apple-tvs-lucky-is-a-bloody-good-crime-thriller-thick-with-family-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5287","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV\u2019s \u2018Lucky\u2019 is a bloody good crime thriller thick with family affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Anya Taylor-Joy spends much of the new Apple TV series \u201cLucky\u201d with blood on her clothes, body, and hair, some of it hers, some of it from the unfortunate people she happens to encounter. She\u2019s just a thief, not a killer, but chaos follows her wherever she goes, which will happen when you steal $10 million from gangsters and the FBI is on your trail like a famished bloodhound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5285\">The 10 best movies of the year (so far)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Taylor-Joy, who made her big TV splash as an unlikely chess prodigy in the first-rate 2020 Netflix series \u201cThe Queen\u2019s Gambit,\u201d is a restless, gamine force in \u201cLucky,\u201d which starts slowly, withholding information for a couple of episodes, before picking up steam and clicking together nicely. It\u2019s a story about cops and robbers, but the more important action revolves around frayed bonds and regrets between parents and children \u2014 fathers and daughters, mothers and sons \u2014 and how they lead to a messy and, yes, bloody situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Things start off well enough for Luciana \u201cLucky\u201d Armstrong (Taylor-Joy). She\u2019s celebrating in Las Vegas with her husband, Cary (Drew Starkey), and why not? In their hotel room sits a bag packed with that $10 million. But such sums rarely come trouble-free (Mo money, mo problems, as the Notorious B.I.G. once explained in song). The cash was originally stolen by Lucky\u2019s thieving dad, John (Timothy Olyphant), from Cary\u2019s gangster mom, Priscilla (Annette Bening). Priscilla is not someone you want to steal from. Then Cary disappears with the money, leaving Lucky drugged in their hotel room and in a bit of a mood, and the seven-episode chase through Southern California and the Southwest is on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let us pause for a moment to observe that Bening\u2019s crime-boss turn is reason enough to watch \u201cLucky.\u201d It\u2019s been 36 years since she earned her first (of five) Oscar nomination for playing a manipulative conwoman in \u201cThe Grifters,\u201d but Priscilla brings to mind another character from that movie, the loving but toxic and tragically damaged mother played by Anjelica Huston. Priscilla is hardened to life\u2019s niceties. She looks very sharp in a turtleneck, and she acts like someone who would hate to break a nail as she watched you take your last breath. She also loves her son, which is one reason why she hates the woman who married him, Lucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>That mother\/son relationship finds a more developed parallel in the bond between John and Lucky. John, a thief since childhood, raised his girl to be the same. He trained her well. It\u2019s fun to watch Taylor-Joy make her way through Lucky\u2019s series of lies and scams; on the run at one point, she talks her way into a tony L.A. children\u2019s birthday party, where she makes off with an expensive dress, several pocketbooks, and gift envelopes of cash. As we see in one of several well-conceived flashbacks, her dad taught her this scam, and many others. She\u2019s getting tired of the criminal grind, but she\u2019s been trained well. And now she\u2019s desperate. There\u2019s one more parental relationship in \u201cLucky,\u201d between a workaholic FBI agent (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, excellent as always in a bottle-blond \u2018do) and her teen daughter (Aadyn Encalarde), who wishes mom would chill out a little. Or at least try an edible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5283\">An ousted maestro, an angry orchestra, an uncertain financial future. The BSO faces the music.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>You may have noticed by now that the principal characters in this crime yarn are women. Based on a novel by Marissa Stapley and created by Jonathan Tropper (\u201cYour Friends and Neighbors\u201d), \u201cLucky\u201d has an emotional intelligence and a basis in family dynamics that gives ballast to the car chases (there are several, some better than others) and gunplay (not as much as you might think, despite the blood that Lucky seems to wear as an accessory). Taylor-Joy, Bening, and Ellis-Taylor take turns at the heart of the story, even though, as the title indicates, this is Lucky\u2019s show. Olyphant, a sly silver fox; William Fichtner, as Priscilla\u2019s scary, reclusive boss; and Clifton Collins Jr., as Priscilla\u2019s loyal henchman, all lend strong support, but the female characters are first in \u201cLucky.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The series also represents what will hopefully become an Apple TV trend. The streamer is as consistent as any other, but with many series stretching up to ten hours in running time, you can often feel the narrative padding. \u201cLucky\u201d checks in at a crisp seven episodes. It\u2019s a lean, fast ride that still offers plenty of opportunity to stop and appreciate the human moments wedged in between the thrills. Quantity is rarely the same as quality in episodic television, and \u201cLucky,\u201d to its credit, steers clear of the bloat epidemic that plagues so much current TV. That\u2019s a big reason why it\u2019s such a bloody good time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>LUCKY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Timothy Olyphant, Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, William Fichtner, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr., Mo McRae, and Aadyn Encalarde. First two episodes premiere Wed., July 15 on Apple TV; subsequent episodes stream Wednesdays through Aug. 19. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5281\">Director Sasha Waters on creating a \u2018poetic visual experience\u2019 for \u2018Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anya Taylor-Joy shines as an adept if regretful thief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apple TV\u2019s \u2018Lucky\u2019 is a bloody good crime thriller thick with family affairs - 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