LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo star in the Apple TV+ series about a young couple battling serious baby blues.
More than once I wanted to turn it off but I never did.
From there, the story shifts into full maternal horror mode.
LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo in ‘The Changeling’.Apple TV+
The titleTo the Waters and the Wildis taken from a poem by W.B.
Even with its flaws,The Changelingresonates, in part because its central theme hits a primal nerve.
“How do we protect our children?”
Jane Kaczmarek in ‘The Changeling’.Apple TV+
muses Cal, the leader of a women’s compound Apollo discovers in his search for Emma.
“The new fears are the old fears, and the old fears are ancient.”
“We spy on children all the time now.
Nobody calls the police,” sighs Cal, citing the “poisonous trap” of social media.
TheChangeling’s strong ensemble pulls the series through some of its muddiest stretches.
“When you believe in things you don’t understand, then you suffer.”
