Chris Evans in ‘Defending Jacob’: TV Review
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variety.comBy Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The nature of evil — where it originates, why it takes hold of some so potently — is among the richest questions fiction can investigate.
Which makes a show that aims at it and falls short of saying anything real a double disappointment. It’s not just that “Defending Jacob,” a new limited series on Apple TV Plus, has nothing to say — it’s that it set out to say so much.
Chris Evans stars here as Andy Barber, an assistant district attorney in greater Boston whose idyllic life is interrupted when his son, Jacob (Jaeden Martell) is accused of killing a classmate.
Together with his wife Laurie (Michelle Dockery, a long way from “Downton Abbey”), Andy struggles to cope with the idea that his beloved son
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