In the series ‘Lucky’, Anya Taylor-Joy has been running away for five episodes

For five episodes, Lucky is on the run, from the police and from the criminals who want their money back. Exciting chases through a gambling palace in Las Vegas, through the desert, the streets of Long Beach, between parked trucks. Time and again the young woman manages to miraculously escape. Even when she’s tied up in the trunk of a moving car, she still gets out.

You then see her sneak past her searching pursuers unnoticed. While she can be recognized out of thousands. Lucky has the characteristic face of Anya Taylor-Joy (known from The Queen’s Gambit). Just like in her other work, that face sets her apart from the others – an exceptional loner. And then she also has a brightly bleached bob, which matches the blood on her face. She shakes off her injuries after limping three times.

The chases and Taylor-Joy’s alternately tormented and hypocritical performance as a resilient action hero are the main attraction of this Apple TV+ crime series. It is also somewhat interesting that Lucky’s father and her parents-in-law are also involved in crime, making the battle for ten million embezzled dollars also a battle between parents and children.

Robbing children’s parties

First Lucky and her new husband run away with the money to please their parents, and then to spite their parents. In flashbacks you see that Lucky, as a young girl, was used by her father to rob children’s birthday parties. The criminal children have to break away from their parents, family ties are difficult when you are stealing and cheating.

The latter is mainly explained in two talk episodes, which slow down the series. Showrunners Jonathan Tropper and Cassie Pappas could have dosed the in-depth scenes more elegantly.

It stays that way Lucky a stylish, exciting and exciting series, with excellent actors, but otherwise it is not that special. You would actually expect such a genre piece on Netflix rather than on Apple TV+. This lesser-known but rich streaming service still focuses on artistically special productions.