Stepping into hats men the void left by a local quartet's departing singer, Freddie is the spark igniting a whole new level of ambition for guitarist May (Gwilym Lee), drummer Taylor (Ben Hardy) and bass player John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello)  all of whom, unlike Freddie, have a Plan B if the music thing doesn't work out. As to the indefinable, transcendent something known as band chemistry, the movie doesn't quite penetrate the mystery. The lads call themselves misfits playing for misfits, which hardly captures what makes them unique among rock acts.

As a result, the group's tensions and rifts don't register with the intended force, and Mercury's growing imperiousness never truly feels like a threat to the band's dad hats cohesion.That's no fault of Malek's. Taking on a daunting task, he more than delivers. Though he's only an inch shorter than Mercury was, he generally comes across as smaller and more delicate, and with his distinctive, enormous eyes, he'll bowler hat never be a ringer for the frontman. But, outfitted with the famous overbite and an exquisite array of costumes by Julian Day, and moving with a ferocious, muscular elegance, Malek is transformed.

The music-biz elements of that saga strike a lighter note, as you might expect when Mike Myers is tapped to play an EMI exec, a quarter-century after Wayne's World put this movie's title song back on the charts. A nearly unrecognizable Myers is the hit-hungry money guy hats kangol who once championed the group and now just doesn't get the genre-bending, six-minute "Bo Rhap," as a take-no-prisoners Freddie, bouncing about the office like a frog, calls their new song. The scene is a strained bit of burlesque-meets-manifesto, somewhat redeemed by its ultimate punchline, many scenes later.

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At the end of episode one, we see a representative of the New York Bar threatening everyone at Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams. She intends to run things at the firm, lest everyone is okay going the way Zane went. Despite the looming threat of disbarment, no one at Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams is willing to be someone else's puppets and everyone is ready to put up a fight  one that may be harder to win than they had assumed.