Standup comic and sitcom star Jack Whitehall breaks typecast in the new Amazon Prime Video series Malice, sharing screen space with David Duchovny as a charmingly manipulative manny who conspires against his wealthy employer family.
With a trailer soundtracked to The Turtles’ ‘Happy Together’ (which is having a resurgence this year with toxic romances like The Roses and Together), the six-episode miniseries captures familial tension, sexual uneasiness, and carefully-orchestrated discord to the sounds of Mick Jagger, Hozier, and even the annoyingly catchy ‘Ma-ia-hii, ma-ia-huu’ song.
And as Whitehall’s Adam devilishly breaks this family from within while drying out their dirty laundry, the tragicomic tone of the series is balanced with the multi-genre soundtrack.
Malice Soundtrack: Full list of songs by episode
Title song
Blame - Gabriels
Episode 1
Sweet Thing - Mick Jagger
Peace Frog - The Doors
I Love You - Spacemen 3
Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
Eat Your Young - Hozier
Cheerleader – Ashnikko
Episode 2
Roller Coaster - Balthazar
Dance Me To The End Of Love - Leonard Cohen
Awed By The Beauty (Third Mode) [Greek Version] - Unfading Rose
Ikariotiko (I Agapi Mou Stin Ikaria) - Giannis Parios
Ela Na Pame S' Ena Meros - Giannis Parios
Erotas Archanggelos - Dimitris Mitropanos
Voodoo In My Blood - Massive Attack & Young Fathers
Episode 3
The Look - Metronomy
Mannequin Man - Panic Shack
Sweet Dynamite - Claudja Barry, Todd Terje
We Can Move - Free Youth
Cave Hermit - JoeLY
Supernature - Cerrone
Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone
Love Raptor - JoeLY
Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
Episode 4
Everybody's Gotta Live - Love
Just Cool - Obongjayar
Walk In My Shadow - Joe Bonamassa
Episode 5
Does The Swallow Dream Of Flying - Cosmo Sheldrake, HOWL
Blush - Miller Blue
Episode 6
My Love For You - ESG
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
As you can see from the tracklist, Malice is full of some all-too-familiar ballads like Leonard Cohen’s ‘Dance Me to the End of the Love’ (made famous in Al Pacino’s Scent of a Woman) and Jeff Buckley’s tearjerker ‘Hallelujah’ (itself a cover of a Cohen’s original). There’s a bit of that Mick Jagger and Doors groove with Massive Attack and Electric Light Orchestra scoring some crucial ending twists in episodes 2 and 3.
A particular music highlight in the third episode is when Carice van Houten’s character, designer socialite Nat Tanner, has too much drink and belts out the O-zone’s Romanian guilty pleasure ‘Dragostea Din Tei’ aka the ‘Ma-ia-hii, ma-ia-huu’ and ‘nu ma nu ma’ song.
Released back in 2003, ‘Dragoestea Din Tei’ is comparable to other one-hit wonders like ‘Gangnam Style’ and ‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’ even though it continues to trend today through social media trends.
But Malice also offers some foot-tapping modern additions to your playlist. Take for instance ‘Just Cool’ by London-based Nigerian singer Obongjayar which plays while Adam is ardently packing his luggage while shuffling his phone playlist.
The song’s groovy bassline and Obongjayar’s insistent calls on ‘being cool’ already won the song a place in a poker scene in F1: The Movie earlier this year.
Comparisons with White Lotus are bound to made for Malice when it shifts from London to Greece where the uber-rich Tanner family vacation in a sea-facing retreat. Basking under the Mediterranean sun and dancing in Greek weddings also adds a Hellenic touch to the soundtrack with distinguished Greek songsmiths like Dimitris Mitropanos and Giannis Parios.
Who’s in the cast?
Comedian, actor and regular A League of Their Own panelist Jack Whitehall leads the cast as the ominously sly antihero Adam while being supported by David Duchovny who is best-known for playing paranormal investigator Fox Mulder in The X-Files and scandalous writer Hank Moody in Californication.
Playing Duchovny’s wife and Adam’s employer is Dutch actress Carice van Houten, who played the sorceress Melisandre in Game of Thrones. Other cast members include Christine Adams (Black Lightning, Batman Begins) and Raza Jaffrey (Spooks, Homeland).
When is Malice released?
All episodes of Malice stream on Prime Video this Friday, November 14.
Where was Malice filmed? All the Greece and London locations for the sun-kissed thriller.
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