Speaking to RadioTimes.com ahead of the release of Prime Video's Malice, comedian Jack Whitehall, who plays a man hellbent on revenge, said that viewers might experience a complicated emotional response to its antagonist when all is revealed.
"And I think that's quite important, to have those moments of feeling almost sympathetic. Through the back half of the series, you really see him as a true villain, and you're really wanting him to get caught, and really praying for the safety of the family. But then at the end, there's just this... I don't know how to describe it.
Killing a kitten and a dog (you b**tard!) certainly doesn't help Adam's case. And there's also the double murder (maybe I should have started with that) – first Damien, whom he thwacks over the head with a cricket bat before dumping his body in the Thames – and finally Jamie, whom he shoots point-blank in the head in Greece, shortly after shooting another man dead. All horrible, obviously.
Then there's the plethora of other non-murderous but still terrible acts Adam commits, from poisoning the Tanners' old nanny to his decision not to call off the burglary after learning that the daughter, April, was going to be at the Tanner house when it happened.
Yet the big reveal ended up being a big anti-climax.
Malice ending explained
Adam's dad, Colin Tilderman, killed Jamie's mother before he then took a load of pills and set fire to the family home.
He had invested £15 million in the family's luggage business, which had been going for 150 years. But everything fell apart when Colin couldn't make his interest payments and, in a short amount of time, Jamie had washed his hands of Adam's dad, whose pride and joy had been left in tatters.
Cue fade to black.
But while it initially felt underwhelming, in hindsight the series was never really about the “why”, but the journey getting there – James Wood's script was incredibly moreish – and also what it has to say about grief and the emptiness of revenge.
Instead, he looks thoroughly miserable, like he could burst into tears at any moment, as it finally dawns on him: Jamie's demise will not resurrect his parents or bring him an ounce of peace or comfort, for the past cannot be undone.
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And that's also particularly sad given the moments when we get a glimpse of the man he could have become, particularly during his interactions with sweet Dexter, the youngest Tanner, if he hadn't withdrawn into himself and allowed revenge to consume him.
For all that is darkly fun and entertaining about Malice, the moment when Dex asks his mum if his dad is "coming soon" while police sirens wail in the distance — blissfully unaware that anything is wrong as he enjoys his ice cream — leaves you cold.
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