Malice Review: Male nanny Adam Healey tries to get himself into the lives of the wealthy Tanner family, disrupting and destroying their lives from the inside out, trying to get revenge.
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Malice Prime Video Cast
Jack Whitehall, David Duchovny, Carice van Houten, Christine Adams, Raza Jaffrey
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Malice 2025 Directors
Mike Barker, Leonora Lonsdale
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Malice Series Creator
James Wood
The series has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around 50 minutes. All episodes are expected to be released on 14 November 2025.
Malice Review
In Malice, we are forced to watch a terrible Jack Whitehall trying his hardest to be intimidating as he tries to get revenge against the wealthy Tanner family, who, all said and done, seem like normal people. Sure, Jamie Tanner might be a bit douchy sometimes, but overall, they are a delightful bunch who aren’t the usual terrible people that we see a lot in these shows.
However, Adam seems to be hell-bent on trying to destroy their lives and, being a disillusioned young man with daddy issues, you know this is going to go in only one direction. The series is such predictable slop that it’s hard to call it a thriller at this point. It’s so obvious and boring that it feels like it was created to grab some quick cash and is unimpressive in every way possible.
From the premise to the execution and the ending, everything about Malice is absolutely boring and doesn’t do anything to leave us entertained in the slightest. Everything that Adam does is textbook crazy stalker behaviour, down to poisoning the dog, and there’s nothing in the show that sticks out in the slightest.
I think the biggest problem for me was Whitehall himself. He’s terrible in the show with only two expressions throughout. It’s hard to feel for his struggles because you don’t see them on his face. He’s just always… mildly annoyed with an odd expression. I also found the explanation for his revenge plot to be extremely disappointing and unimpressive, and, although valid in a story setting, it doesn’t do anything for the genre itself.
Other than Whitehall, David Duchovny and Carice van Houten are fine, I guess, but their characters have nothing much to do other than reacting to Adam’s antics. It’s not like their characters take action or even open their eyes to see the manipulation in front of them. It’s actually crazy how these shows with the evil babysitter trope showcase the host families as absolute imbeciles who can’t see what’s in front of them. It’s frustrating and makes you question how they ran a successful business for so long, considering Adam isn’t being particularly discreet.
The entire series seems to be a combination of different shows that we have seen over the years, and it’s just so boring that it’s hard to be engaged with the 6 episodes throughout. It’s actually wild that there is literally nothing new in the series that makes it stand out in any way, and it’s painfully mediocre. The situations and repetitive and the thrills so painfully obvious that you see it from a mile away.
In the end, thus, viewers will find themselves either dropping the series after an episode or two or holding on, hoping for some interesting twist that will never come. The last episode rushes through the explanation for this elaborate scheme and is underwhelming in every sense of the term.
Final Thoughts
Malice is painfully mediocre and extremely boring, with an underwhelming climax that doesn’t properly explain the elaborate craziness. I don’t know why anyone would watch this, but proceed with caution and adjust your expectations if you do!
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