'Disclaimer' is an absorbing and multi-layered melodrama

By Linda Holmes,

Aisha Harris, Bilal Qureshi, Hafsa Fathima, Mike Katzif, Jessica Reedy

Published October 15, 2024 at 9:15 AM EDT

Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer. — Cate Blanchett in *Disclaimer*.

In the powerful new Apple TV+ drama Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett plays a woman who's terrified after she's sent a novel that's based on a chapter of her past that she's desperate to keep secret. From Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón, the series was also stars Kevin Kline, as a man who's also consumed by the events recounted in the book.

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Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

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