A curse, family secrets, Guyanese crime and a failed kidnapping. Mix those ingredients with a setting like New York City and you get Full Circle, a tense miniseries available on HBO Max.
In Full Circle, the grandson of a famous chef is kidnapped, but it does not exactly go smoothly. What I especially liked is that while the plot unfolds, you are not busy asking “who did it?”, but mostly wondering why on earth all of this is happening.
It also helps a lot that Full Circle has a huge star cast. You can enjoy Dennis Quaid, Timothy Olyphant and the always irritating Claire Danes, among others.
Even though the story is genuinely tense and keeps leaving you with more questions, the pace of the series is sometimes a little slow. It takes a while before all the threads in the first episode become clear, and for me the series only really started at the end of that first episode.
The following episodes more than make up for that.
Full Circle is a lovely thriller, and with six episodes it is perfect entertainment for a few evenings on the couch.
Genre: Crime
Length: 1 season, 6 episodes
Watch on: HBO Max