Ragdoll Review

The killer in AMC+’s new drama Ragdoll attracts the attention of the London police through a particularly gruesome MO: He has fabricated and carefully positioned a murder victim cobbled together from the bits and pieces of six murder victims, leaving the authorities to solve a half-dozen killings while at the same time trying to work their way through a kill list of six future targets. It’s one of those head-scratching things where, after watching three episodes of Ragdoll, I’m truly not sure if Freddy Syborn (Killing Eve), adapting Ragdoll from the novel of the same name by Daniel Cole, recognizes that he’s making a metaphor rather than a TV show. There’s no question that the Ragdoll Killer has a particularly creepy methodology, nor that Ragdoll as a TV series has enough unnerving moments to satisfy impressionable devotees of the genre.

Its only original aspect is the often chaotic stitching together of the familiar elements. Airdate: Thursday, Nov. 11 Cast: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Thalissa Teixeira, Lucy Hale Creator: Freddy Syborn; based on the book by Daniel Cole Before we meet the Ragdoll Killer, we have to meet the Cremation Killer, who sets his victims on fire or something before he’s caught by Detective Sergeant Nathan Rose (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) and then set free because Rose cut corners in pursuit of the case. Rose’s ethical compromises and their aftermath leave him so damaged that he attacks the Cremation Killer in court and then spends time in an asylum working his way through PTSD of various sorts.

It’s extra convenient because many of the body parts seem to belong to people connected to the Cremation Killer, and extra extra convenient because the names on Ragdoll’s kill list conclude with…Nathan Rose. Rose is rusty as a detective and generally emotionally rusty, but he returns to work, partnered with former protege Detective Inspector Emily Baxter (Thalissa Teixeira) and with Detective Constable Lake Edmunds (Lucy Hale), who is gay and American because somebody realized that this particular patchwork needed more audience-spanning elements. Syborn has some commentary he wants to work through here, reaching for but never quite finding genuine humor amid the pile of dismembered limbs.

There are jokes about the British tabloid press and the need to fetishize and build brands around serial killers. None of this is perceptive, nor will most viewers especially care about the occasional lecturing. But I don’t think the show is that smart, in part because Ragdoll is positively giddy about the killer’s convoluted machinations, which are incredibly personal and calculating to an exhausting degree.

You’re supposed to invest instead, I guess, in the partnership at the show’s center. But other than forced banter, there isn’t much there. Lloyd-Hughes, most recently seen going through similarly traumatized motions as Sherlock in Netflix’s short-lived The Irregulars, is interestingly drained and twitchy.

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Who Tries To Help Rose Choose A Path Of Redemption?

Rose is forced to confront his choices as Baxter tries to help him choose a path of redemption; Baxter and Edmunds are faced with a difficult decision as Rose’s name becomes that last one left on the kill list; Edmund’s dark past is revealed.

Who Recently Featured In Channel 5’S Anne Boleyn?

Thalissa Teixeira does not cope well with extreme gore, which made starring in the year’s most gruesome police drama something of an ordeal. Ragdoll revolves around a nauseating crime scene: a figure sewn together from the body parts of different victims, suspended from the ceiling of a London flat. When she was introduced to the eponymous monstrosity on set, Teixeira recalls: “It properly spun me out.”

Teixeira plays DI Emily Baxter, tasked with solving the case, alongside her already-traumatised colleague DS Nathan Rose (The Inbetweeners’ Henry Lloyd-Hughes) and newbie DC Lake Edmunds (Lucy Hale, of Pretty Little Liars fame). Blending the knotty plotlines of Line of Duty with a barrage of surreally bizarre deaths, the show, which launches tonight on Alibi, is a serious meditation on the institutional failings of the police with a very high gag rate, the joke kind and the other kind. Interesting projects … Teixeira as Madge Shelton in Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn.

She recently featured in Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn. “After the last two years, the way that we view cop shows is going to change dramatically,” she says, referring to the global protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. Wry and witty … Teixeira wants to focus on writing.

“The other night, I was cycling home and the fear I had was being stopped by the police. The only encounters I’ve ever had with the police have been to do with race problems and none of it anyone’s fault.” Ragdoll also examines how it feels to be a person of colour inside such an institution.

But (spoiler alert) it’s even more complex than that: despite making a significant mistake, Baxter is not fired because the “optics would look bad. “I hope this comes across OK on a page,” she says sheepishly, “but luckily I haven’t stopped working since I left drama school.” Despite her success, though, Teixeira is now planning to “step away a bit” from acting to focus on writing.

The country and its culture still loom large in her life: her housemates are Brazilian and they speak Portuguese together at home. Still, she will be tempted back if a second series of Ragdoll gets the go-ahead. Teixeira is already bracing herself for more depravity from the mind of Syborn.

Who Plays Ds Nathan Rose In Ragdoll?

Action-packed crime thriller Ragdoll sees Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Thalissa Teixeira and Lucy Hale teaming up to play detectives hunting a disturbed serial killer. It’s from the producers of Killing Eve. Assigned to the shocking case are London Metropolitan cop DS Nathan Rose, DI Emily Baxter, and the unit’s new recruit, DC Lake Edmunds.

A Ragdoll trailer has been released by AMC+. But soon the Ragdoll killer taunts the police by sending them a list of his next victims, with DS Nathan Rose’s name among them. (Image credit: Alibi) American star Lucy Hale came to London to film ‘Ragdoll’.

Henry Lloyd-Hughes, 36, says: As a cop, Nathan is instinctive but flawed in terms of breaking protocol. Henry Lloyd-Hughes DS Nathan Rose in ‘Ragdoll’. (Image credit: Alibi) ‘Ragdoll’ cast — Lucy Hale on playing DC Lake Edmunds Best known for playing Aria Montgomery in Pretty Little Liars, the American actress Lucy Hale recently starred in the Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene, as well as Life Sentence and Privileged.

I feel like I’ve been preparing my whole life for this role because I love true crime! She’s smart and desperate to learn but she’s more like Nathan than she wants to admit because she has things she’s running away from. ‘I love anything gruesome and morbid, but this is different, because it also has a dark humour that sets it apart.

Lucy Hale American detective constable Lake Edmunds in ‘Ragdoll’. (Image credit: Alibi) ‘Ragdoll’ investigation…Edmunds making a shock discovery. (Image credit: Alibi) ‘Ragdoll’ cast — Thalissa Teixeira on playing DI Emily Baxter Thalissa Teixeira plays DI Emily Baxter in Ragdoll, who is DS Nathan Rose’s best friend and boss.

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