Starz COO Touts Global Streaming Expansion Amid CBS Takeover Speculation Myfanwy has enhanced capabilities revealed swiftly yet confusingly as a series of letters and recorded messages lead her to her apartment, to her office and to meet an assortment of co-workers including the icy Linda Farrier ( Joely Richardson), the inscrutable Conrad Grantchester (Adrian Lester) and the four-part consciousness-sharing Gestalt (Catherine Steadman, Jon Fletcher, Ronan Raftery).Įntering to cause complication is Monica Reed ( Olivia Munn), a uniquely gifted operative with the American equivalent of the Checquy and representative of how swiftly Starz’s The Rook leaves the plot of O’Malley’s The Rook behind, beyond the dual questions of what happened to Myfanwy’s memory and why? Her rank is “rook.” Don’t bother worrying about what that really means. This sequence, intimately and evocatively captured by pilot director Kari Skogland, was probably my favorite part of the four episodes sent to critics, not a great sign since it’s maybe five minutes before our amnesiac heroine even learns her name and it’s downhill from there.įortunately, before her memory loss, she was an absurdly detail-oriented woman named Myfanwy - rhymes with “Tiffany” for purposes of the story, if not necessarily in the traditional Welsh - and she’s a top-level pencil-pusher in a British secret service organization called the Checquy, dedicated to harnessing individuals with enhanced capabilities. A young woman (Emma Greenwell) wakes up disoriented, soaked and surrounded by dead bodies. Series creators Al Blyth and Sam Holcroft start in the same place as O’Malley’s book.
After all, how can you start with a core premise this enticing and end up with something this dull?
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