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Alfonso Cuarón and Cate Blanchett made a television series. 'Disclaimer' is already a triumph
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Director Alfonso Cuaron, left, and Cate Blanchett pose for portraits to promote the Apple TV series "Disclaimer" during the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. - photo by Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Disclaimer” pulls the rug out from the audience before they’ve had the chance to get settled. There’s no building of empathy for its central character, Cate Blanchett’s Catherine Ravenscroft. There’s no luxuriating in her banal every day, at work or in her plush London home with her snobbish husband (Sacha Baron Cohen) and directionless, resentful adult son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).