“Before. / “The Terror.”
“Before” (Apple TV+) psychological thriller , starring Billy Crystal in a role that we are not used to seeing him in. P remise: A recently widowed child psychologist meets with his next client, who mysteriously shows up at his house and appears to know things about him. The child appears to have psychotic episodes that result in harm to himself or others, but the psychologist senses something in these episodes that appear to point to a "source" which the psychologist appears to relate to. In many instances, the series suggested a foray into the icky realm of Ryan Murphy-ish blood gore or threatened to slip into supernatural lore. But it didn't. It managed to tread a graspable terrain of realism as we carried on. Stellar acting all throughout by Mr Crystal as the grief-stricken and confused psychologist Eli and Rosie Perez as Denise, the foster mom of the mysterious boy. The most remarkab...