The Beast in Me ★★★★½ ( Netflix)

For many decades, scientists have tried and failed to generate cold fusion, the hypothetical process of achieving nuclear fusion at or near room temperature. For those seeking assistance, I would suggest watching this gripping limited-series, a psychological thriller about culpability and anger, because the scenes shared by the two leads, Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, deliver an almighty charge. At every level, from emotional to atomic, the pair forge a phenomenal connection.

Stars of Homeland and The Americans respectively, Danes and Rhys play Aggie Wiggs, an acclaimed memoirist still furiously grieving the loss of a child, and Nile Jarvis, the scion of a New York property development family who was the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance

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