Néro The Assassin Review: Moving to France in 1504, ravaged by drought, corruption, and religious hysteria, Netflix’s Néro The Assassin carries the idea of marrying historical fiction with gothic fantasy while telling the tale of a tortured assassin whose sins catch up on him when the daughter succumbs to a dark prophecy. The intensity and emotion promised by the storyline are somewhat lost along the way, making it a stylish but inconsistent watch.
It’s the tale of Néro, a cold-blooded hitman who falls under the burden of the councilman Rochemort, who has deposited Hortense into a forced marriage to further his ambitions. Yet when the Vatican declares a prophecy concerning the Devil having possessed a little girl-meaning Néro’s own daughter Perla-the assassin’s world crumbles. He runs and hides to keep his young daughter from the zealous fanaticism.
Rich in atmospheric narrative, the plot includes elements of political treachery, religious terror, and parental guilt-these are interrupted with poor pacing and scattered subplots reducing this into consistency.
Néro The Assassin lives up to its promise on its visual design; creating dusty, gothic citadels and dark candle-lit corridors wherein viewers can immerse in a relentless medieval nightmare. The performances also did much to make heavier the narrative, especially those of Louis-Do de Lencquesaing and Lili-Rose Carlier Taboury.
The series never really found its footing, however, in tonal sense: it tried to straddle something between dark fantasy and historical realism without completely committing itself to be one or the other. There are modern instances of dialogue that do seem somewhat ham-fisted, while many attempts at emotional weight don’t come off as intended.
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Production quality and authenticity.
Interesting father-daughter interplay.
Great baddie and cliffhanger-heaped set pieces.
Lousy pacing towards the end of the series.
Shallow arcs allotted to major supporting characters.
De-routinification during significant scenes.
Néro The Assassin Review: Although very beautifully made and sometimes emotionally engaging, Néro The Assassin still has the burden of storytelling inconsistencies on it. A watch to be sure but with little in terms of perfection- dark tones and looks are to be expected.
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