A few minutes into the second episode of Netflix’s absorbing, anxiety-inducing, and astonishingly acted Black Rabbit, Jude Law dons a scraggly bleach-blond wig. As Jason Bateman steps behind a set of drums, the series slides from its groggily desaturated color palette into grimy black-and-white. Suddenly, Black Rabbit goes from being a thriller about a pair of codependent fuckup brothers to a flashback music video showing them at the height of their coolness, and it is simultaneously ludicrous — that wig! — and undeniably convincing. Law as a dead ringer for ’90s Damon Albarn, who knew?
