First impressions of The Beast In Me (Netflix) suggest Claire Danes has been wildly miscast as a grieving Pulitzer Prize author locked in a destructive game of mutual fascination with a villainous property developer. Danes is, after all, the go-to actor for edge-of-panic attack verisimilitude. All the way back to Romeo + Juliet (how terribly that “plus” sign has aged), she has brought a grounded quality to her roles – part of the reason Baz Luhrmann’s campy take on Shakesp
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