For a thriller, the Amazon Prime Video series “ Malice ” is curiously devoid of tension. Right from the beginning, it’s clear that the handsome, affable Adam (Jack Whitehall) is up to no good when he turns up at the Greek vacation home of the ultra-wealthy Tanner family. We know this because “Malice” opens with a flash forward to Adam being detained by customs officials at an American airport, then presented with evidence that some terrible-but-unspecified fate has befallen Tanner patriarch Jamie ( David Duchovny ). Adam doesn’t even feign surprise, telling his interrogator that Jamie was “not a nice man.” That “Malice” never circles back to this teaser is one of many signs the show is oddly listless, both loosely plotted and lacking in suspense.

Creator and writer James Wood (“The Gr

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