The Third Day ep1 review, Culture Whisper
The intriguing enigmas of The Third Day started building before the series even had a trailer. What would a collaboration between Sky and the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk look like? Is it an experiment? A laugh? The story, also, was shrouded in mystery – revealing only the bare basics of the plot.
As with anything ambitiously unfamiliar, you can't help feeling sceptical. How are they going to pull this off? What are they going to pull off? But The Third Day thrives on these innate peculiarities, calling you to enter its elusive world.
Not since the days of Lost has a series sparked so much of this critic’s curiosity. And like Lost, The Third Day also has a strange island with strange inhabitants and strange goings-on. But writer Dennis Kelly (Utopia) makes the experience more insular, more subjective to Sam (Jude Law), a business owner who’s recently been robbed.
