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‘The Third Day’ Makes Grief Feel Like the End of the World: TV Review

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe tide of symbolism in “The Third Day,” HBO’s new limited series, rises high enough to threaten to swamp the show.

But two urgently compelling central performances keep viewers afloat all the same.The six-part series is broken into two halves but united by setting: A surreal island called Osea somewhere in the United Kingdom, one governed by ritual and a sort of magic, surrounded by choppy and threatening seas and accessible only by narrow causeway.

That it feels like the end of the world is rather the point. In the first three episodes, Jude Law’s character finds himself there in the midst of an escape from the problems of his life, and soon finds that the island and the annihilating threat it poses has.

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