Apple TV+'s 'Liaison' Trailer Hints at a Cross Channel Thriller

Apple TV+ originally came out of the gate in 2019 with all of four original series, a paltry amount of content considering its direct competitors like Disney+ and HBO Max had entire libraries on offer. However, unlike Netflix, which handled the competition by sheer dint of numbers, releasing 60+ original titles a month, every month, regardless of quality, Apple TV+ has attempted to win by quality. And while every series isn’t a Ted Lasso or Slow Horses, even the failures are often interesting. (See, for example, is godawful and also ought to be studied in classrooms as an example of how not to make prestige TV.)

The latest venture is Liaison, the streaming service’s first French-British co-production. A six-part thriller with a nonsensical-sounding synopsis, it stars César Award winner Vincent Cassel (Westworld) and BAFTA Award winner Eva Green (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children) as a pair of former lovers who now find themselves on opposite sides as a French cyberterrorist plot hits London in the heart of the city, by collapsing the barrier around the Thames that keeps it from breaking its banks, sending the metropolis awash in fear as more services U.K. citizens take for granted come under threat.

Whether or not the show itself is any good may not matter, as the trailer suggests the sheer level of acting that the two leads bring to the table will probably cover a multitude of sins.