Led by Jude Law, ‘The Order’ May Have Worked Even Better as a Limited Series Than a Feature Film

The characters deserve more emphasis. The backstories powering Law’s straggly lawman, Tye Sheridan’s go-get-’em novice, and, especially, Nicholas Hoult’s charismatic terrorist would barely fill a bumper sticker.

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Jude Law and Jurnee Smollett in 'The Order.' Via Vertical

Is it me, or does the typical limited series suffer from not being sufficiently limited? These programs, whether seen on television or via streaming, drag on for reasons that seem to have less to do with narrative fullness than with satisfying a contractual obligation. Wander, they do, being neither fish (a movie whose formatting involves a compression of time and story) nor fowl (an episodic series predicated less on plot than on character). 

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