This fun, action-packed romp about super-powered highway robbery is like Gentleman Jack with added swagger. And its star could not be more magnificent
has earned the right to kick back and relax a bit. Renegade Nell is the result. Seemingly designed for a younger audience than her usual fare, this is a fun, slightly odd, definitely slighter piece of work that channels the spirit of perhaps her second most famous work,, who made her name as the glaikit Orla in Derry Girls and could not be more brilliant here in a wholly different part.
Not only is she alive but, when under pressure or in fear for her life, she is vouchsafed – courtesy of a little firefly/Harry Potter Golden Snitch-type thing that zooms into her ear or mouth at the crucial moment – superhuman abilities. Every episode contains two or three set pieces in which she gets to dodge bullets, throw villains into trees and generally gain the upper hand over those who seek to hurt her or her family.
The firefly/Golden Snitch thing turns out to be more of a Tinker Bell thing when it transforms into a sprite called Billy Blind to remonstrate with her for using her powers to beat people up rather than save her skin. But in time he will also suggest that he has been bonded to her because she is destined for great things.Renegade Nell is, clearly, a romp and not meant to be taken terribly seriously.
All that said – it only works by the finest of margins. The pell-mell plot and the energy all the actors bring to their parts only just hold the disparate pieces together. Maybe a young audience will neither notice nor care how oddly the elements bump up against each other. Then again, have you met a young audience lately? They are terrifying in their sophistication. Anyone making a stand in front of them really needs to deliver.
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