Giancarlo Esposito Can’t Save AMC’s Haphazard and Predictable ‘Parish’: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu People can grow, but they rarely change. When backed in a corner or placed in impossible situations, it’s human nature to revert to what you’ve always known.
Base instincts kick in, and often, we find ourselves walking down the same paths we’ve sworn we’d never return to. In AMC‘s “Parish,” an adaptation of BBC One’s “The Driver,” the past of Gracián “Gray” Parish (an always precise Giancarlo Esposito) comes thundering toward his present.
Just a year after the tragic death of his teenage son and facing a dire financial situation, an old colleague, Colin (Skeet Ulrich), makes Gray an offer he can’t refuse.
What should be a one-time job and payout turns into a tumultuous alliance with the volatile Tongai family that puts Gray and his family in harm’s way.
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