SummaryBased on the Dutch series Penoza, Marta Walraven (Radha Mitchell) discovers she must continue her murdered husband's illegal business activities if she wants to protect their three children from organized crime.
SummaryBased on the Dutch series Penoza, Marta Walraven (Radha Mitchell) discovers she must continue her murdered husband's illegal business activities if she wants to protect their three children from organized crime.
Only Visnjic, immaculately groomed and vaguely continental, seems to understand that this over-the-top story requires not only a constant flame to boil the plot but a flirtatious sense of fun. [11 Mar 2013, p.45]
The odds are better that viewers will see Red Widow as a formula series trying desperately not to be a formula series. In the process, it's not very exciting. Or compelling.
Red Widow feels focus-grouped and dramatically scattered. All of the show's characters, right down to Marta's Russian mob-boss father (Rade Šerbedžija) are so clichéd that the episodes begin to feel like dramatizations of TV Tropes entries.