Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Thriller ‘The Beast in Me’ Is a Lopsided Take on ‘The Jinx’ With a Less Compelling Killer: TV Review
Variety | 13.11.2025 14:01
Of all the mysteries in the Netflix thriller “The Beast in Me,” the least suspenseful is its source of inspiration. The limited series co-stars Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis, a reclusive New York real estate heir widely suspected of murdering his first wife who decides to unburden himself to a suspicious interlocutor. Nile’s conversation partner is a writer, not a filmmaker, but scrubbed of proper nouns, this synopsis is more or less identical to that of “The Jinx,” the 2015 docuseries that made now-convicted killer Robert Durst a household name.
