Louisa Harland stars as a highwaywoman fighting for justice in Sally Wainwright's new series, with 'Ted Lasso's' Nick Mohammed as the pixie who gives her superpowers.
Sally Wainwright, creator of the much-admired crime drama 'Happy Valley' and the historical lesbian romance 'Gentleman Jack,' has cooked up a winning supernatural period feminist adventure comedy, 'Renegade Nell.' The series, which premieres Friday on Disney+, is the second in just over a month, following 'The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin' on Apple TV+, to have as its hero an early 18th-century British highwayman, or woman, as the case may be.
On the run, with her sisters in tow — along with Rasselas , a disaffected Blancheford retainer, and Charles Devereaux , whose gang she dismantled at the top of the series — Nell turns to highway robbery to survive as she seeks justice for her father. This is also, it occurs to me as I write, the plot of the Jane Fonda movie 'Cat Ballou.
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