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Sick, cynical and irresistible: Netflix’s Kaos reviewed

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

Kaos

Netflix

Kaos is a new Netflix gods-and-monsters black-comedy blockbuster that will scorch your screen and fry your brain like a thunderbolt from Zeus. It’s sick, cynical, brutal and very, very dark but it’s so well acted, ingeniously plotted, moving, inventive, funny and addictive that I fear resistance may be futile.

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