I’m an expert in Ancient Greece – Netflix’s Kaos is the cleverest retelling of Greek mythology I’ve ever seen

By Ellie Mackin Roberts, Research fellow, University of Bristol

Last year, one of my child’s English assignments was to rewrite a traditional fairy tale with one major plot difference, to see how the story might play out differently. New Netflix series Kaos feels like its creator, Charlie Covell, was given the same instruction for Greek mythology.

He decided to see what would happen if Zeus was a tasteless, egotistical, paranoid and overly controlling deity, whose best friend (and long-time prisoner), Prometheus, was secretly plotting his downfall.

The show’s blend of humour and drama effectively explores the consequences of such a…

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