20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Chaos' Review: An On-Air Revival on Viaplay
'Chaos'—not to be confused with the defunct 'Kaos' in which Jeff Goldblum was Zeus—has been described as 'The Morning Show' in Danish. But there's at least one important difference. Both series are concerned with how to make good television. Only one of them does.
TV about TV can be like writing about writers, a navel-gazing exercise in which an author might critique a genre, but only while genuflecting before it. Refreshingly, 'Chaos' has enough going on in terms of subplots—they are many—that Big Media is less an object of worship than a simple backdrop for messy situations and messy people. Those people are also, it should be said, delightful to watch as they struggle through their self-sabotaging situations. Also, in Denmark, the media is not so big.
