If you like revenge, bright costuming, social relevance, strings-only covers of great pop songs, or Alison Brie/Bo Burnham/Max Greenfield/Adam Brody/Molly Shannon/Connie Britton, do Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan have a trailer for you.
Promising Young Woman centers on Cassie (or Cassandra, as Burnham’s character calls her), who we meet as she’s apparently in the process of passing out at a bar. But the apparently matters here. “Every week I go to a club,” Mulligan’s voice explains. “I act like I’m too drunk to stand. And every week some nice guy comes over to see if I’m okay.”
Writer-director Fennell is still probably best known as an actor, playing a memorable role on PBS’s Call The Midwife and making her debut on this season of The Crown as Camilla Shand/Parker-Bowles, but she’s not new to writing. She penned several episodes of the British series Drifters before succeeding Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the showrunner on Killing Eve. This seems to have some of Eve’s balanced-on-a-razor tone; as for whether or not it has any of its killing, we’ll have to wait until April 17, 2020 to find out.
