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Sep 16, 2021 · As Above, So Below: Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. With Ashley Zukerman, Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Beau Knapp. Promising young Harvard professor Robert Langdon finds himself pulled into a complex mystery when his former mentor, Peter Solomon, is kidnapped.
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By Matt Fowler
Posted: Sep 16, 2021 2:00 pm
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol premieres Thursday, Sept. 16 on Peacock.
The premiere of The Lost Symbol, based on the third book in Dan Brown's best-selling Robert Langdon symbologist series, is an earnest but half-cooked puzzler featuring capable, amiable leads and a clunky clockwork plot that offers few surprises.
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Fear Street's Ashley Zukerman plays Harvard University professor Robert Langdon, a boastful brainiac of all things religious iconology and symbology. Zukerman is pleasant and punchy in the role, giving us a detective who's awkward enough to be endearing and driven enough to be obnoxious. It's sort of the sweet spot for TV snoops, that balance between perceptive and pesky. You want this type of character to be both out of their depth and in their element at the same time, and in this way, Zukerman is a solid, satisfying Langdon.
Keeping things more Washington D.C. focused instead of some of Brown's more globe-trotting treks, The Lost Symbol is a dive into Masonic mumbo-jumbo in which everyone will learn a valuable lesson about tinkering with the unknown and probing the past. In this regard, it's satisfying popcorn content, but not much more.
"As Above, So Below," directed by 10 Cloverfield Lane's Dan Trachtenberg, features gruesome tableaus, hidden catacombs, booby traps, trademark Dan Brown secret society mercenaries, and -- of course -- Langdon's signature luscious head of hair (which Hanks was lightly roasted for lacking). This introductory chapter moves well, fills in crucial character blanks via flashbacks, and spotlights Langdon as he quickly solves clues left behind by a villain named Mal'akh. It's junior league mystery stuff that more or less disguises its ordinary nature by having everyone become fast-talking Wiki pages.
It's satisfying popcorn content, but not much more.
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Langdon's think tank team on this ride includes Peter's daughter, and Langdon's former flame, Katherine, (The Tick's Valorie Curry), CIA investigator Sato (Sumalee Montano), and astute Capital policeman Nunez (Rick Gonzalez). Izzard provides key emotional stakes here (as well as a very distracting academia ponytail) while Langdon's crusade is peppered with light bickering between him and Katherine because, well, he's kind of s***ty about her field of Noetic science. That's a science which, by the way, is portrayed as vastly more interesting than Langdon's particular arena, which just seems like flashy infographic stuff (he's literally teaching a Harvard class about how "some symbols now mean bad things").
Nothing in The Lost Symbol is meant to crack molds or rattle cages, but if you're looking to turn off your brain for a bit while a few "smart" characters spout off smart things, it's fine entry-level intrigue.
The premiere of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is fundamentally fine, existing in a nice network TV-style nest of palatable potboilers that can bounce us easily from scene to scene, clue to clue, without offering up anything truly special. Ashley Zukerman's Robert Langdon is an acceptable "everyman" hero with twinges of academic arrogance and situatio...
Sep 16, 2021 · Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol Season 1 Episode 1, “As Above, So Below,” takes us on a mysterious quest, with lots of riddles and puzzles to solve along the way.. It’s doubtful that we will actually be able to solve any of the coded messages/puzzles — unless you also studied symbols like Robert Langdon — but we get to watch Langdon put all the pieces together, which is still fascinating.
Sep 16, 2021 · Clues Blues. Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol premieres Thursday, Sept. 16 on Peacock. The premiere of The Lost Symbol, based on the third book in Dan Brown's best-selling Robert Langdon symbologist ...
Sep 16, 2021 · Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol Episode 1 Recap. The pilot, titled ‘As Above, So Below,’ begins with a prisoner — presumably American — being tortured by the guards in a facility in Ağrı, Turkey. The narrative then shifts to Robert’s class at Harvard, where he speaks to his students about how the same symbols are interpreted ...
Sep 16, 2021 · The Verdict. The premiere of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is fundamentally fine, existing in a nice network TV-style nest of palatable potboilers that can bounce us easily from scene to scene, clue to clue, without offering up anything truly special. Ashley Zukerman's Robert Langdon is an acceptable "everyman" hero with twinges of academic ...
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The Lost Symbol: With Ashley Zukerman, Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Beau Knapp. Based on the 2009 Dan Brown novel of the same name, The Lost Symbol is the story of a young Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman) being tasked by the CIA to solve a number of puzzles when his mentor (Eddie Izzard) is taken.
