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Andy Meek
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If I hadn't already watched all nine episodes of Calls, a new star-studded drama series that Apple TV+ is debuting on Friday and which the company screened early for the press, I was already intrigued enough by the trailer that I'd have checked it out on my own anyway.
It's hard to say too much about the show on the front end for anyone who wants to check it out, because this is a series that's best experienced going into it cold. As you can see from the trailer below, though, the title of the show makes the format you can expect pretty clear -- the whole thing unfolds as a series of, well, phone calls. Over nine episodes that last no more than around 20 minutes each, you'll listen to both ends of a telephone conversation. And that's it. No visuals to speak of, really, other than some cool, ambient graphics.
Apple is dropping the entire season all at once on Friday, and this is one that you definitely might want to binge in a single go (with the episodes being so short, the whole season is only around 2.5 hours long). A sort of live transcription of both ends of the phone conversation will appear on the screen in each episode, making you feel sort of like you're watching one of those cops programs where someone calls 9-1-1, and you see the transcription of the call for help appear on the screen. Having said all that, Calls is definitely one of the most ambitious things that any major streaming service has tried -- and if you can get past some of those quirks we mentioned, you'll be in for a thrilling series that, at least for me, plowed thematic ground similar to another TV show I loved: Lost.
I'll admit it, when I saw the cast list for Calls (it includes high-profile names like Rosario Dawson, Aubrey Plaza, Pedro Pascal, and Lily Collins, to name a few), it was easy to be a bit cynical and feel like this whole thing was a gimmick to give those actors something easy to do during the pandemic. Just record some phone calls, brilliant! But no: If you like shows that play around with concepts like that of the multiverse and of the grandfather paradox vis a vis time travel, I suspect you'll be adequately entertained herein, at a minimum.
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