Jeff Goldblum Plays a Vengeful Zeus in the First Trailer for Kaos

Netflix has released a trailer for Kaos, its caller bid starring Jeff Goldblum arsenic a vengeful Zeus increasing progressively paranoid connected modern time Earth. Have a look:

Created by Charlie Covell (The End of the Fucking World), Kaos concerns Zeus discovering a caller wrinkle connected his forehead, which helium interprets arsenic a motion of the coming apocalypse. Becoming progressively paranoid, Zeus sets his sights connected 3 mortals helium believes are connected to an past prophecy predicting the extremity of his reign connected Earth. An ouroboros of paranoia past forms arsenic further signs and portents pb each of the prophesied humans to judge they, too, are being watched by the Greek pantheon who besides program connected destroying them.

While the conception of depicting gods arsenic Hawaiian shirt-wearing retirees is arsenic slightest arsenic aged arsenic a 2002 occurrence of The X-Files (specifically “Improbable,” successful which Burt Reynolds appears arsenic God), the trailer has a unsocial tone. Though it pitches itself arsenic a drama of manners, the trailer itself is afloat of remarkably grim imagery, including the blood-dripping remains of 7 radical hanging from a wall, a chained pistillate drowning successful a transparent swimming pool, and a severed lingua handily stored successful a dresser. The effect makes it consciousness similar a transverse betwixt American Gods and Utopia, which is simply a caller pairing indeed. 

If thing else, the formed is stacked, with Janet McTeer arsenic Hera, Cliff Curtis arsenic Poseidon, David Thewlis arsenic Hades, Killian Scott arsenic Orpheus, Debi Mazar arsenic Medusa, Nabhaan Rizwan arsenic Dionysus, and Fady Elsayed arsenic Glaucus. We besides person Westworld‘s Aurora Perrineau—heavily featured successful the trailer here—as 1 of the 3 humans who determine to instrumentality arms against the gods. Billie Piper and Eddie Izzard are besides said to beryllium making cameos, truthful that’s besides fun.

We’ll spot however it each unfolds erstwhile Kaos premieres August 29 connected Netflix.

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