Netflix has launched a trailer for Kaos, its new sequence starring Jeff Goldblum as a vengeful Zeus rising more and more paranoid on modern-day Earth. Take a look:
Created by Charlie Covell (The Finish of the Fucking World), Kaos issues Zeus discovering a brand new wrinkle on his brow, which he interprets as an indication of the approaching apocalypse. Changing into more and more paranoid, Zeus units his sights on three mortals he believes are linked to an historical prophecy predicting the top of his reign on Earth. An ouroboros of paranoia then types as further indicators and portents lead every of the prophesied people to imagine they, too, are being watched by the Greek pantheon who additionally plan on destroying them.
Whereas the notion of depicting gods as Hawaiian shirt-wearing retirees is as least as previous as a 2002 episode of The X-Recordsdata (particularly “Unbelievable,” by which Burt Reynolds seems as God), the trailer has a singular tone. Although it pitches itself as a comedy of manners, the trailer itself is filled with remarkably grim imagery, together with the blood-dripping stays of seven individuals hanging from a wall, a chained girl drowning in a clear swimming pool, and a severed tongue handily saved in a dresser. The impact makes it really feel like a cross between American Gods and Utopia, which is a novel pairing certainly.
If nothing else, the forged is stacked, with Janet McTeer as Hera, Cliff Curtis as Poseidon, David Thewlis as Hades, Killian Scott as Orpheus, Debi Mazar as Medusa, Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus, and Fady Elsayed as Glaucus. We even have Westworld‘s Aurora Perrineau—closely featured within the trailer right here—as one of many three people who determine to take arms towards the gods. Billie Piper and Eddie Izzard are additionally stated to be making cameos, in order that’s additionally enjoyable.
We’ll see the way it all unfolds when Kaos premieres August 29 on Netflix.
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