The ‘Kill Jackie’ Trailer Is Double-Barrelled Fun
Please let 'Kill Jackie' be as good as its trailer.
The more we see of Catherine Zeta-Jones’ forthcoming Kill Jackie, the more we feel certain this is the hit that AMC+ needs.
The new eight-part series is based on The Price You Pay by best-selling author Aidan Truhen (the pen name of Nick Harkaway). But that’s less important than the formula it follows. It seems that AMC+ is taking a cue from its more successful streaming service sibling, Acorn TV, by taking an under-employed actor whose heyday was in the ‘90s/’00s and putting them in a series that fits its brand of genre tropes. For Acorn, that brand is cozy crime, and so far, following this format has created success stories like My Life Is Murder, Harry Wild, Art Detectives, Irish Blood, and You’re Killing Me.
AMC+ has two major tropes associated with it: supernatural thrillers (Interview with the Vampire, The Walking Dead, etc) and gangster/serial killer thrillers (Gangs of London, Killing Eve, and This City Is Ours, to name but a few). Of those, Killing Eve was already halfway to the Acorn formula – Sandra Oh wasn’t quite as underemployed as, say, Jane Seymour, but given another five years, she would have been.
The trailer certainly makes Kill Jackie feel like Killing Eve’s more gangster-focused successor, with the same laugh-out-loud, tongue-in-cheek approach to violence. But it’s Zeta-Jones who is riveting as the titular character, and may finally get audiences to start subscribing in droves.
Here’s the series’ synopsis:
Kill Jackie follows Jackie Price who has spent the last twenty years living a quiet, luxurious existence selling fine art while remaining anonymous after escaping a criminal past. Her carefully constructed world is shattered when she discovers that The Seven Demons, a squad of ruthless assassins, have been hired to kill her. Jackie will need to unleash her old instincts and execute a dangerous plan to take down the Demons.
Zeta-Jones (Wednesday) stars as Jackie Price, alongside Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen), Bill Paterson (Fleabag), and Ron Perlman (The Capture).
The four are joined by an extensive cast that includes Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows), Raff Law (Masters of The Air), Hattie Hook (My Life Is Murder), Enzo Cilenti (The Crown), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Prime Target), Christine Adams (Hijack), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia), Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London), Julian Barratt (The Great), and Gavin Spokes (Slow Horses).
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The supporting cast includes Bamshad Abedi-Amin (The Last Kingdom), Set Sjöstrand (The Wheel of Time), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Soviet Jeans), Jonathan Cake (And Just Like That), Óscar Jaenada (Cantinflas), and Tadashi Ito (Society of the Snow).
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Conor Keane and Peter Lawson co-created the TV adaptation with Tom Butterworth, who acts as showrunner, and Damon Thomas (Killing Eve), who splits helming duties with director Dawn Shadforth (I Hate Suzie). Butterworth is an executive producer alongside Thomas and Zeta-Jones, Dante Di Loreto, and Jeffrey Levine, with Keane as associate producer; Lawson and José Augustin Valdes executive produce for Steel Springs.
Kill Jackie will premiere on AMC+ on Friday, October 2, 2026, and will stream one episode a week on AMC+ through mid-November.
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