Agatha Gibbs, the journalist played by Claire Danes in Netflix’s new thriller series The Beast in M e, has a contract to write a book about the friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. She’s struggling with this, her second book, and you think you understand why: Her only child died in a car accident four years ago, and she and her wife divorced in the aftermath. But when Aggie goes out for lunch with her wealthy new Oyster Bay neighbor, Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), he quizzes her on the project, and is less than impressed. “It’s boring ! No wonder you’re stuck!” he says. Aggie tries to defend her idea: “It’s two people with radically opposed worldviews, deeply polarized convictions, who still manage to have real affection—” Nile, played by Rhys as a magnetically rude

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