Agreed. The surprise of Katie being alive is a bit of a twist but by and large, the mystery is background and I think happy to be so. This is more about the perils of living in the same small town all your life, how the opioid crisis has ravaged families, etc.  Plus plenty of space for unusual jokes.  (I might start…

Yeah to a great extent this show’s actually (so far) doing what a lot of shows of this ilk claim to do–they’re telling a story about characters, not just a mystery. It helps that 1) the mystery is actually kinda compelling, 2) that it does have a sense of humor. Especially #2.

Actually I prefer the natural dramedy with these characters instead of the whodunnit, which is cliched “dead girl” and now “serial killer and kidnapper” mystery we’e seen a billion times before. But the show has a lived-in, authentic quality when it’s just focused on these people in this town, facing problems all to…

Oh lord, the costumes are really bad look. Def cosplay-esque. Worse, the story, at least the first episode is pretty boring.

I have to disagree, this show looks even worse/cheaper than a CW show. I immediately thought, “cosplayers produce better costumes than these.” The make up, the wigs.... woof. The sets for the past aren’t bad, but the present is so genaric, or is shot in such a tight frame, so as to not need any art production. It’s…

its like a cw show

learning one thing about a character, even one tragic thing, does not automatically create an emotional connection with a character. I felt this episode was functional, and I’m sticking with the show until the end of the season, but I feel it is kind of muddling along. It finds one or two nice moments per episode but…

I asked the same question, and I think my wife called it.  She said Mare probably just didn’t want to deal with it.  If there was video evidence, she’d have to do something about it, arrest the guy, and right now she’s got too much other stuff to deal with.

One other point about Frank - watch his fiance’s expression as they leave the police station. She doesn’t look or talk to him, just hands him his coat. Hearing the accusation triggered a realization in her I think, and while he probably didn’t kill Erin, he isn’t the great guy everyone thinks he is.

It will be interesting to see if your theory works out. It makes sense. As far as Chekhov’s pistol - the series is kind of loaded with ‘pistols’. Guy Pierce has as much star power as Winslet, but then he might be too obvious. The Deacon was my initial guess just because he’s so smug (and smarmy, imo).

As a sidenote, I was really confused by the fight between Lucy and True, to the degree that I need to check that did I miss something. So Lucy breaks everything she touches, which was seen at the start of it and was a threat before True swept her to the ground. Howeer, then True decides to mount Lucy, which was really…

This show continues to be such a mixed bag for me. Every scene that didn’t feature the two main leads, to me, worked and even managed to have the characters feel engaging. There were even moments that felt genuinely clever like the Myrtle translation scene which was pretty good problem solving. Hell, even the way…

Like when Zabel seemed to have made a very drunken pass to Mare and she just looked at him and sent him on his way.

I got the impression it was more that he was highly praised (and promoted?) because he cracked that case but doesn’t feel like he’s really earned any of that. But that’s maybe me thinking too simplistically.

That said, I don’t think he’s as terrible at his job as this reviewer does, so...  *shrug*

Mrs. True is DEFINITELY from the future. Or rather, whoever is wearing her skin is. And she’s told Penance all about it. “We don’t attend funerals WHEN I’m from.”

To me it feels like she’s been written as an anti-hero from the beginning, but we’re just finding out little by little how low she’s capable of going.

Zabel’s recounting of his big case feels off. He basically “yada yada’d” a murder investigation.  You solve a case like that and catch a murderer, you want to talk about it, go over the details and crow about the moment when you looked in the perp’s eyes and knew he did it. My theory is that he suspects or knows deep…

No disrespect meant to Tom Riley’s Augie, but I can’t help thinking his part was made with Andrew Scott in mind. His perfect storm of awkwardness and nervous energy seems a natural fit for Augie’s mannerisms.

The minute I saw that deacon’s sermon, he pinged my “he’s involved” radar. Then the conversation with the priest where he’s like “I knew her, but lost touch and, oh, I mean, I didn’t *really* know her [but I totally slept with her]” was pretty much a WATCH THIS SPACE moment. More coming there, no doubt.

I think it actually is supposed to be that.