Javier Bardem and Amy Adams’ ‘Cape Fear’ Is a Worthy and Disturbing Psychological Thriller: TV Review

By Aramide Tinubu

Aramide Tinubu

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John D. MacDonald’s novel “The Executioners” has been adapted for film twice as “Cape Fear”: first in 1962, starring Robert Mitchum, and again in 1991, starring Robert De Niro and directed by Martin Scorsese. The latest adaptation, an Apple TV series created by Nick Antosca, is perhaps the most unnerving and intense retelling yet. A portrait of a family undone and a wronged man determined to seek vengeance, “Cape Fear” explores betrayal, retribution and what it really means to demand an eye for an eye.

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