Based on the hit novel \u201cThe Price You Pay\u201d by Nick Haraway (in which the main character is a man named Jack), the show chronicles what happens when Jackie\u2019s past as a high-end drug dealer returns to threaten her new life as a luxury art dealer. Twenty years after Jackie thought she\u2019d left it all behind, her relatively quiet, respectable life is threatened by an elite team of killers who\u2019ve set out to assassinate her as an act of revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turns out there\u2019s no timeline on retribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the creators of \u201cKilling Eve\u201d (Damon Thomas), \u201cJohn Wick\u201d (Peter Lawson) and \u201cGangs of London\u201d (Conor Keane and Tom Butterworth), the series is action-packed, fast-paced, hip and charming. Sometimes, however, those charms wear thin. In short, \u201cKill Jackie\u201d exudes vibes, but the vibes sometimes mask the show\u2019s convoluted plot and muddied stakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily, Zeta-Jones\u2019s considerable charisma \u2014 and endearing native Welsh accent, the first time she\u2019s used it on camera \u2014 is enough to carry the load, even during the show\u2019s weaker moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The story opens with Jackie enjoying her days as a luxury art dealer \u2014 a far cry from her drug smuggling era. But the past can be hard to escape, especially if the past was more exciting than your present, more respectable reality. So, when Jackie learns that The Seven Demons, a squad of brutally relentless hitmen, have been hired to take her out, she doesn\u2019t exactly panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, she actually seems to perk up a bit with the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackie, whip-smart and calculating, immediately clocks that it\u2019s someone from her nefarious bygone days who\u2019s contracted The Seven Demons. Even when Jackie\u2019s most shocking secrets are revealed and even when the darkest or most painful parts of her past confront her, she exudes a wry calmness that often feels incongruous with her purpose. Perhaps it\u2019s just about staying true to the show\u2019s quips-and-machine-guns genre, but does Jackie actually care about the outcome, or is she just here to have a bloody adventure, outcome be damned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of bloody adventures, the show\u2019s got a lot of them. Each episode is packed with loud explosives, shattering glass, flying knives and just about any other form of death and assault that one could imagine \u2014 and more often than not, Jackie is at the wrong end of the weapon or scheme. There may be Seven Demons, but Jackie Price has nine lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKill Jackie\u201d is inarguably a stylish, kicky romp executed with obvious nods to the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie and storytelling that recalls the cat-and-mouse hijinks of \u201cKilling Eve.\u201d Its settings are lush \u2014 Spain, Wales, London, et. al. \u2014 and there are some fun cameos, most notably an all-too-brief appearance from Ron Perlman. Audiences will likely stick around for the entire frenetic ride, but by the end they may also be left asking the question: What does Jackie Price actually want \u2014 and why should we care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKill Jackie\u201d premieres Oct. 2 on AMC+.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kill-jackie-oscar-jaenada-catherine-zeta-jones-amc-plus.jpg?width=1024&height=540&fit=bounds\")
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Knowledge may be power; however, power doesn\u2019t mean survival will come easy. Soon Jackie realizes that in order to escape she\u2019ll need to confront \u2014 and atone for \u2014 her prior actions.
Here\u2019s where things get messy, though, both for Jackie and the viewer.
The Seven Demons is a ragtag band of mercenaries helmed by a vengeful frontman, Friedrich (Julian Rhind-Tutt), and engineered by an ambitious frontwoman, Karenina (Sidse Babett Knudsen), who is, in turn, working for a mysterious leader who is, in turn, beset by the antics of his useless, rich boy son. (Sorry, no spoilers here).
Once Jackie figures out that this leader must be someone whom she crossed in her previous, seedier life, she loosely assembles her own squad. That group includes her young and eager prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Charlie (Hattie Hook), her amiable but bumbling lawyer, Sam (Daniel Ings) and a longtime associate, Zigor (\u00d3scar Jaenada), who, as it turns out, is seeking his own revenge for past hurts.
From there, the show expands into a bit of a labyrinthine mess. Just about everyone\u2019s got an agenda, and just about everyone is ready to double-cross anyone if it means saving their own hide or, worse, if it aids in their greedy pursuit of acquiring or hoarding all the potential riches.
While Jackie exhibits a sturdier moral compass than many of those around her, she\u2019s also consistently and maddeningly glib, which, despite her magnetism, may leave some viewers less invested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kill-jackie-daniel-ings-amc-plus.jpg?width=1024&height=576&fit=bounds\")