One evening, and for no particular reason – an absence of anything fresh-sounding in the streaming services, perhaps? – we dipped into an unlikely looking thriller series: “Atomic,” produced for Sky Studios. At least it was something we hadn’t dipped into before and rejected. It promised a story of drug smuggler in North Africa who meets a jihadi.
Soon I found myself asking a question: What turns the unlikely, implausible and frankly repugnant into something that’s, well, fun – sort of? How do the writers, or the director, or the actors pull this off? …
Read the rest of ‘Atomic’ – the ironic likability of a jihadi and a drug smuggler on Substack.
