Consider Criminal on our must watch list for whenever it comes out. If you cast a show with Luke Evans and Emilia Clarke, that’s definitely all we need to know. Seriously. Our Prime Video subscription will remain.
Criminal is a crime drama series that in addition to Evans and Clarke has casted: Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Adria Arjona, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Gus Halper, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier, and Dominic Burgess.
What a cast!
Criminal is based on the graphic novels created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. If you’re looking to read them before you watch the show, the novels are the same name.
The series is described as “an interlocking universe of crime stories.” We just happen to love stories that we have to piece together and it sounds like we’ll be doing just that here.
Evans will play Tracy Lawless. His characters official description is, “Tracy Lawless was pushed out of the outlaw life of his family (his father is the legendary Teeg Lawless and Ricky (Halper) is his little brother) at the age of 18 when a judge gave him a choice of prison or the military. In the Army, Tracy thrived, his wild outlaw instincts getting funneled into the strict discipline of the military. He was placed into the Special Forces and trained to be an expert in covert operations and guerilla warfare. But underneath it all, the Lawless blood still pumps in his heart.”
Clarke will play Mallory who is described as, “a slick and daring armed robber, as quick with a gun as she is with her wits. Part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless (Halper), who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with. Mallory is a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will bring her and her entire crew into the danger zone.”
What do you think? Are you interested? Will you watch this?
