Actors like Ali Stroker (as the twins’ resentful sister) and Karen Robinson (as their hometown’s suspicious sheriff) have a field day by diving headfirst into the show’s drama, delivering each line to register from a mile away.
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What ends up being more effective, though, is when the show embraces its histrionic tendencies as the TV equivalent of a paperback thriller you might pick up at an airport and blaze through before your flight lands. Netflix’s latest taut thriller series Echoes will definitely leave you guessing from its opening episode to the final seconds of the finale. These moments feel largely out of place amidst the wild turns that otherwise make up “Echoes,” but are undeniably necessary for making the twins more understandable outside of their bond. Whether as small kids (played by Hazel and Ginger Mason), teenagers (Madison and Victoria Abbott), or adults, Leni and Gina’s connection is so intense it’s practically supernatural, giving “Echoes” an edge of strangeness that perplexes as much as it intrigues.Įvery so often, the show makes overtures toward saying something capital-i Important about what it means to be a woman, sister, and/or mother. “The switch,” as they call it, is unnerving enough as a concept alone, but “Echoes” takes it a step further by having the moment itself unfold in a ritual that comes across as a both religious and psychosexual experience, complete with more candles than should ever be burning outside a lesbian love scene circa 1994. therapist husband, Charlie (Daniel Sunjata) Leni’s Virginia rancher husband, Jack (Matt Bomer) and daughter, Mattie (Gable Swanlund). Every year on their birthday, the two switch lives, not only to walk in each other’s shoes, but to share custody of Gina’s L.A. Even for twins, their abnormal closeness as children leads to an astonishing gambit as adults. Leni favors a side braid, precision, and a heavy Southern drawl Gina prefers loose waves, smoky eyeliner, and a life independent of her sister’s. Leaning into uneasy thriller vibes with an eerie score and impressively unreliable narrators, “Echoes” bobs and weaves between the twin perspectives of Leni, the seemingly milder-mannered twin, and Gina, the so-called bad seed.
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