The Eddy 2020

Finished watching the eight part miniseries on Netflix last night call “The Eddy”. Set in a run down large jazz club in Paris I had mixed feelings about it. Some of it is forced and predictable with its run down plot that includes all the usual devices one would expect from a show about jazz and the musicians who play it. The main men behind it are Damien Chazelle and Alan Poul with writing credit going to Jack Thorne who fills it with so much stress and angst that I nearly laughed at some of it.  The plot thins and thicks off and on but the original music is nice, although I would have preferred some classics thrown into the mix, but I can’t fault them for this. The cast is large and is by and large quite good especially the great Andre Holland as the once famous musician and co-owner of the club, who has a lot on his plate including his pain in the ass but gorgeous teen daughter who comes to live with him, played by Amandla Stenberg ,there were times that I wanted to strangle her. Also on board is Joanna Kulig as the chanteuse of the club and is in danger of being type cast in this sort of role. She also cast her considerable talents in the terrific “Cold War”, which has some thin connections to this series . The show’s eight episodes focus on some of the individual members of the band along with several non band characters. There are dirty deals, drugs (of course) a gay character (of course) and a few murders and nasty types. The running thread is the over used plot device of family usually of the dysfunctional kind, and the show is loaded with them. Mothers fighting with daughters and  sons, brothers fighting with sisters, fathers taking on daughters and on and on. Still it has nice atmosphere, Holland’s eyes and Kulig’s open toe heels,  so I can say sure check it out especially good for the coming long hot summer.