Catherine Zeta-Jones Leads AMC+ Crime Series Kill Jackie
Catherine Zeta-Jones is the woman everyone wants dead in Kill Jackie, an eight-part crime series arriving on AMC+ on Oct. 1.
Zeta-Jones plays Jackie Price. She is an elite art dealer with a criminal past as a dealer of cocaine. That past explodes into the present when an unseen someone puts out a contract on her.
The hit comes from the Seven Demons. They are an elite band of assassins hired to kill Jackie. She has to survive them. That chase drives the eight hour-long episodes.
The series was created by Tom Butterworth and Connor Keane, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It is based on The Price You Pay by Nick Harkaway. The book gives the show its starting point: a woman with money, contacts and secrets, forced back into old survival skills.
Zeta-Jones leads a large ensemble. The cast includes Daniel Ings, Óscar Jaenada, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Darci Shaw, Raff Law, Christine Adams and Julian Rhind-Tutt. She plays Jackie in her real Welsh accent, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. It is a rare leading television vehicle built entirely around her.
The trailer sells the fightback. It was released ahead of launch for the Zeta-Jones-starring series. It shows her firing shotguns. It also shows Jackie taking out home-raiding assassins with guns hidden inside artwork, according to Deadline. The message is blunt. Jackie will not go quietly.
Early critical reaction is rough. The Hollywood Reporter's review carries the bottom line "Dead on arrival." It describes the show as "shallowly conceived and haphazardly constructed" and "a thriller fatally short on thrills." It also says Zeta-Jones "makes an uninspiring lead."
For viewers, this means a straight action chase across eight hours. A glamorous art world on the surface. A violent underworld underneath. All of it lands under the AMC+ crime banner from Oct. 1.
