I’m with you on the HBO vanity series; moody, unstructured star-based semi-mysteries seems to be the strategy for their highbrow stuff lately and it’s just not working. I do think the network’s future is in shortform series (Succession, I think, is the end of the Oz/The Sopranos lineage), but they need to take the…

Yeah, I mentioned this after the reveal last episode, like wouldn’t the bottom of the Hudson River be a better hiding place? But I guess I enjoyed this for what it was, although I was afraid that if Jonathan did it, this would be a very roundabout way of telling a very straight forward story. Glad they didn’t drag…

The best part of the last episode IMO, was the scene in the car with Jonathan ranting and Henry begging him to stop. As dumb as the whole series was, from start to finish, other than knowing they wouldn’t hurt Henry, I wasn’t sure how it would end.

i loved the cops on the bridge half-heartedly looking at her running towards them saying “no ma’am you can’t go out there-” and just kind of watching as she jogs past about a dozen of them.

Her face lately looks much more masculine than I remembered. Her jawbone seems much more prominent and her lips look carved out. And her skin seems to have the appearance of freshly molded wax that is beginning to dry and harden. She didn’t have those facial features when she was in Moulin Rouge (which is the last…

Excellent review of the review, imho. Just wanted to add the infuriating detail they did include about Hugh Grants apparently blood and brain soaked tux going to dry cleaners... which nothing is ever done with. I guess dry cleaners are protected by client confidentiality? Who knew!

Thinking she meant “please kill me” is... a real stretch. Not sure how you’re getting that. 

Not sure if you are the director or we just watched different shows. This one, the one I watched, was a complete pile of trash. 

This is what I’ve tried to explain to my sister, who likes to just watch something and not be critical. There were SO many red herrings. The other affair, who was that? Why bring it up if it doesn’t mean anything? Her father standing outside Elena’s apt in the middle of the night. Getting rid of the murder weapon.

Kidman was an Exec Producer on this with David E Kelley. I get the impression that after the success of Big Little Lies HBO threw a bunch of money at them and told them to do whatever they wanted. This very much felt like a vanity project for both of them, with little quality control because nobody was going to say no…

Motive was a problem throughout.

So it seems like Nicole Kidman’s thing is appearing in limited series that are about nothing until the absolutely insane last two episodes (BLL season 2, not one)

I can’t say a bad word for Sofie Grabol (and Forbrydelsen is one of the best things ever created for TV, its whodunnit revelation one of the chilliest tv moments) but I totally agree with you, the “american” accent was distracting and unnecessary. Although what annoyed me more was that stupid triumphant smile towards…

I mean yeah it wasted its opportunity to be an entertaining courtroom drama and/or mystery. But at least we got to hear Nicole Kidman sing every week!

1. If it wasn’t for the pandemic and the lockdown and the lack of series to watch, I would had stopped watching after episode 2.
It started promising and then went downhill. I do not think this story had more material than 2-3 episodes.
2. The cast was great the acting not really, but that is probably cause the…

Nicole Kidman is a great actress and gorgeous woman, but that photo makes her look far too much like Weird Al.

It seems to break the primary rule of whodunnits: if it’s obvious who done it, don’t write it as a whodunnit. If your finale is just to reveal what everybody already guessed, then you’ve been wasting your time - you may as well make the guilt clear from the beginning (or near the beginning) and focus on something else…

Little Blonde Herring!

Well that was a waste of 6 hours of my time

Great review, this finale was total crap.