‘Nocturne’ Review: Stephen Graham and Bill Camp Brighten Up Apple’s Staid Crime Thriller for Sad Dads — SkimNews
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- Nocturne premieres on Apple TV with two episodes on Friday, October 30, with new episodes released weekly through Episode 10 on December 25.
- Liev Schreiber plays retired cop Jonah, who is pulled back into the missing-children case that 'broke him' after one of the two children is found.
- Zazie Beetz portrays Saga, Jonah's surrogate daughter and an undercover FBI agent; the review questions Beetz's neutral inflection, awkward drug-bust introduction and inability to oppose the serial killer convincingly.
- Stephen Graham plays imprisoned serial killer Jurek Walter, whose measured, unsettling presence elevates a stock Hannibal Lecter setup, although Walter shares only a handful of brief scenes with Jonah in the seven episodes screened.
- Bill Camp portrays Fairhaven police chief Dave Ellison, whose blunt jurisdictional dispute with Ken Leung's sharply dressed FBI big wig becomes one of the series' most memorable set pieces.
- Nocturne is co-showrun by John Hlavin and Rowan Joffé and based on Lars Kepler's Swedish novel 'The Sandman'; the seventh critic-screened episode supplies major reveals that the review calls clichéd and obvious.
Why it matters: For Apple TV, the two-episode October 30 launch is carried by recognizable stars: Stephen Graham and Bill Camp make familiar material watchable, but the reviewer says obvious resolutions and a perfunctory killer-detective dynamic leave the 10-episode season less distinctive than the performances suggest.
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