{"id":42666,"date":"2026-09-07T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42666"},"modified":"2026-09-06T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:56:03","slug":"lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42666","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lucky&#8221; (2026) starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Clifton Collins Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, William Fichtner and Timothy Olyphant \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090726review_lucky_s1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucky: Season 1 <\/i>(2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Created by:<strong> Jonathan Tropper; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4d6EXXV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LUCKY<\/a> by<strong>\u00a0Marissa Stapley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Van Tulleken <\/strong>(eps. 1; 6-7)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greg Yaitanes <\/strong>(eps. 2-3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jet Wilkinson <\/strong>(eps. 4-5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jonathan Tropper<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(ep. 1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hilary Bettis<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(ep. 2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ariel Levine <\/strong>(ep. 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Stasenko<\/strong>\u00a0(ep. 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hilary Bettis <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Mary Anthony<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0(ep. 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Tropper <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Kevin Rosen<\/strong>\u00a0(ep. 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cassie Pappas <\/strong>\u00a0(ep. 7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Clifton Collins Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, William Fichtner <\/strong>and <strong>Timothy Olyphant<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lucky and her husband, Cary, did it. They have the ten million dollars in cash to prove it. The money was stolen from Wayne Whittaker.\u00a0 Whittaker is a ruthless crime boss.\u00a0 He&#8217;s marked Lucky and Cary for death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cary&#8217;s mother, Priscilla works for Whittaker.\u00a0 He&#8217;s\u00a0 going to kill her too&#8230; unless she&#8217;s gets his money back.\u00a0 If that happens he&#8217;ll just kill Lucky and Cary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But now Lucky and Cary are on top of the world.\u00a0 Tonight they celebrate.\u00a0 Tomorrow they use the ten million dollars to disappear to a life of luxury.<\/p>\n<p>When Lucky wakes up the next morning Cary is gone.\u00a0 So is the cash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the FBI closing in, Lucky finds herself on the run.\u00a0 She has no one to turn to.\u00a0 If the FBI gets her, she can look forward to years in prison.\u00a0 If Priscilla or one of Whittaker&#8217;s thugs catches her first, she can count on a slow painful death.<\/p>\n<p>To survive this she will need to be, uh&#8230; Lucky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Lucky<\/em> is a rollercoaster ride of over-the-top situations coupled with outlandish action. Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Clifton Collins Jr., and Timothy Olyphant do much of the heavy lifting to make it work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anya Taylor-Joy is more than capable of carrying the series.<em>\u00a0Lucky<\/em> has my favorite Annette Bening performance.\u00a0 Clifton Collins Jr. is perfect as the killer dedicated to Priscilla.\u00a0 He deserves a spin-off playing Dutch.\u00a0 Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is a powerhouse as the FBI agent obsessed with bringing down Whitaker no matter what.\u00a0 William Fichtner was the right choice to play Whittaker.\u00a0 Timothy Olyphant is always good&#8230; even when his character isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy over-the-top action then give this one a go, you might just get <em>Lucky<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Lucky: Season 1 <\/i>(2026)<\/strong> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090726review_lucky_s1a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky: Season 1 (2026) Created by: Jonathan Tropper; based on LUCKY by\u00a0Marissa Stapley Director: Jonathan Van Tulleken (eps. 1; 6-7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,50,1,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-tv","category-uncategorized","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42704,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666\/revisions\/42704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}