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With Disney+ Highwaywoman Romp ‘Renegade Nell,’ Sally Wainwright Stands and (Mostly) Delivers: TV Review
In Sally Wainwright's 'Renegade Nell,' Louisa Harland of 'Derry Girls' leads a well-crafted, light adventure story.
Within its PG-13 certificate, “Renegade Nell” proves something of a chameleon itself, metabolizing not just recent developments in period drama and superhero land, but the newly Disney-backed “Doctor Who”, and the palace intrigues of “House of Cards” and “Game of Thrones.”(When a theatrical troupe draws alongside our fugitives, the show even starts to assume some of the self-reflexivity of late-period “Deadwood.”) DoPs Oli Russell and Catherine Goldschmidt lean into their verdant Oxfordshire locations, making a Constable landscape out of every establishing shot, while production designer Anna Pritchard constructs both shadowy passageways and bright, “Marie Antoinette”-like salons for Nell and her pursuers to dash through. As the Machiavellian villain, Lester makes smart work of the reams of exposition that typically motor this kind of show; Art Malik is funny as a doddering lawyer and judge; while Joely Richardson’s imperious aristocrat somehow lives up to her given billing of Lady Eularia Moggerhangar.
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