#day of the jackal

[devilstigeress]

DEADASS

-the last two or three episodes had me stressed and i felt bad for all the ‘collateral’ kills like Rasmus, Liv and Trevor.

-imagine a AU of Bianca and Alex falling in love 👀

I don't think I've ever been more stressed in my life watching a TV show as watching the jackal shoot at UDC

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Before becoming the jackal.....

"Looking through old photos and found this gem from over 6 years ago ✨ - I loved being a wizard 💙💛🧳 11/3/2018 -"

Repost @aidanmeallet

[alien-own]

I really liked this character and I'm sorry that their friendship line ended like this 💔

[tiganas]

The Day of the Jackal then and now

[newrhys]

is this a safe space

[acciohunks]

The Telegraph Magazine

[winterswake]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE

[bryonyashley]

"His codename’s Jackal. He’s a mimic."

[skippingthroughfields]

these days a lot of romance in books, TV, and film leave me a bit cold, which sucks as a lover of romance. there has to be something ~interesting there for me. I've been watching the day of the jackal and it's pretty entertaining so far. but the one thing I haven't quite been able to wrap my head around is jackal's love for his wife, nuria. the show clearly wants us to believe he truly loves her, even if he can't shed his assassin skin and lies like crazy to her. he spies on her. he dreams about her. he thinks about her constantly. even more so than the baby which I (and the show apparently) regularly forget exists.

the chemistry between eddie redmayne and ursula corbero isn't necessarily the issue even though it is middling. ursula certainly does the best with what she's got, which isn't much. but I always struggle when shows place us in an established marriage or relationship and tells the audience how much the two characters love each other, without really being convincing of why they go to the lengths they do because of this love. the jackal is a sociopath with a hundred different faces (though we spend quite a bit of time with him in his true face). he has no qualms whatsoever about killing innocent people to accomplish his objectives. that's established within 20 minutes of the very first episode. so what does it take for this murderer-for-hire to fall in love? why should we be so convinced of this cold-blooded killer's love for his wife? what is it about her that made him fall in love? and vice versa? the show doesn't even try to make us second guess this love. on some level, I'd be obsessed with a suave killer brought to his knees by a woman to the point where he starts a family with her. the deception, the two separate lives, the cat and mouse of it all. but everything about them is spectacularly bland.

throughout the series nuria is constantly questioning who she fell in love with. but who did she fall in love with? in episode 7 we get flashbacks of their first meeting, at a restaurant where jackal is a regular and where nuria works as a waitress. she's hot and vivacious and effortlessly charming. he's a mysterious loner who seems sweet. jackal takes a shine to her and later asks her on a date, to which she immediately says yes. and that's it. that's pretty much all of the flavorless context we have for their relationship. we're simply supposed to believe they fell in love with each other. she doesn't even make him work for the date. there's no push and pull there. she's not even a calculating golddigger or anything, just completely guileless. our favorite sociopath fell in love because she's just that charming? our charming waitress falls for this boring and rich-looking foreigner and that's it? and then we're told that she's completely trusting of him up until the ~turning point. ok. I don't believe the show is trying to pull wool over our eyes. they very much want us to believe there's love there. but there's just nothing convincing me of why these two characters love each other. this failmarriage is of no interest to me.

otoh, the connection jackal has with zina is compelling and sexy. this mysterious corporate shark archetype of a woman who dared to meet an assassin in person. who went to bat for this assassin even when her bosses were not convinced he was the man for their goals. who broke into this assassin's temporary lodgings and withstood his menacing energy. who wasn't afraid to yell and put pressure on this scary assassin. I'd be more obsessed if the actress was better at acting and there was actual chemistry between her and eddie. alas.

otooh, there is ALSO serious messy romantic potential with bianca. also a sociopathic liar. also a married woman (who we're also supposed to believe loves her husband. lol.) with a child. a woman who will do anything to catch jackal. a woman who has no qualms about using innocent people who get killed in the process (even if she does feel some degree of guilt about it). like the parallels are allll there. but she's black and we all know how that goes. in another series jackal would be intrigued and also as obsessed with this mi6 agent who somehow always finds him. sigh.

[daeagon]

so apparently I’ve been using the complexly wrong tag and was wondering why none was talking about this amazing show!

anyways I NEED a Bianca + Jackal team up, I know it’s very unlikely bc their foil/opposite characters but just think about it with me! The chaos and arguing that would happen!!

Season 2 please 🙏

[realbeefman]

i feel insane

[whumpwhumpwhumpwhump]

Watching day of the jackal is like watching a nature documentary where an animal is hunting prey but you're not sure which animal you're rooting for yet

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Eddie Redmayne as the Jackal in The Day of The Jackal.

Credits to Marcell Piti on IG

[alien-own]

I'm going to watch this show twice in 3 days... it seems my biggest "series crush" after Hannibal

[tiganas]

The Day of the Jackal

Old vs New - had to make a few very minor alterations to match the timing.

[newrhys]

karma police is so dotj coded i need to put this edit here that i made