Apple TV+ premieres today the first two episodes of ‘Lucky‘, a series with a few stars in the cast and that is based on a formula that the platform already knows well: turning a best-selling novel into a streaming success. In this case, it adapts the book of the same name by Marissa Stapley, published in 2021 and which went viral a few months later, when it was chosen as a recommendation for Reese Witherspoon’s reading club. From there, the book topped the sales charts for months.
The plot, however, partially moves away from the original starting point. In the novel, Lucky Armstrong is a con artist who wins the lottery with a ticket purchased at random and cannot collect it without giving herself away. The series changes the mechanism: a million-dollar heist goes wrong, causes her husband to disappear and she finds herself pursued by both the FBI and a mafia boss. However, the result wants to preserve the spirit of the original character.
Leading the cast, Anya Taylor-Joy returns to television for the first time since Netflix’s memorable ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. She’s joined by Annette Bening as her mother-in-law and crime boss, and the always-worthy Timothy Olyphant. The aforementioned Reese Witherspoon, after discovering the novel, continues to be linked to the story by producing it (this is not the first time she has done so, her hits were ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Big Little Lies’), and TTaylor-Joy also serves as executive producer through her own company.Ladykiller.
On this occasion, ‘Lucky’ seems to follow in the footsteps of ‘Presumed Innocent’, which was based on a best-seller by Scott Turow and also had a cast of bells headed by Jake Gyllenhaal. Here again we find great actors, a taste for intense thrillers (here seasoned with explosive action sequences) and a visual finish, as always in Apple TV+, which puts the platform several steps ahead of its competitors. Not much will be said about ‘Lucky’, but it will undoubtedly become one of the proposals to follow this summer.
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