The Clumsy Predictability of <em>The Widow</em>
Amazon’s new series stars Kate Beckinsale as a woman searching for answers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It’s important to know, first of all, that the entire plot of hinges on a ratty orange trucker cap imprinted with the word . Yes, . This is supposedly a serious drama about murder, about corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo, about one audacious woman’s mission to discover the truth about a plane crash that killed her husband. But there that cap is, bridging the yawning divide between German fairy tales and male genitalia with a brain-bendingly bad pun. After you see it, you
