Pesky humans! So prone to ignoring the whims and the wills of the powerful gods and goddesses of Olympus. In Kaos, the upcoming Netflix series from The End of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell, Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) has had it with us. “I’m gonna wipe these fuckers right off the face of the fucking Earth,” he snarls, after hearing a woman say she defies the gods.
Nice guy, that Zeus! Famously not a nice guy, really, but here he’s even less nice. Which tracks. Here’s Netflix’s detailed synopsis of the series:
No previous Greek mythology knowledge is required to enjoy Kaos, according to Covell, who told Tudum, “I never want people to feel they can’t watch the show unless they’ve done their homework, because that’s just terrible and very kind of exclusionary. But I would love for people who have read [the Greek myths] to be like, ‘Easter egg, Easter egg, Easter egg.’ ”
You can find said Easter eggs on Netflix when Kaos premieres August 29th.
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Molly Templeton
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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.