La dernière chose qu'il m'a dite

When I first saw the project announcement - I wondered how long the episodes will be. The books are pretty short - 320 pages to make 4H, it seemed a bit off. It seemed they would have to stretch some plots, and it was apparent. And it's really funny to read all the reviews about Bailey - her actions right now prove to be crucial to the book, the entire premise of the book was that Hannah and Bailey, through Owen's disappearances, work their differences together, and build this engaging relationship. To not spoil anything much - the reason why Bailey is acting as such - it's for a reason. A reason that is important in the plot. There are more things I expect to see in the remaining episodes - especially after EP 2. (Don't want to spoil anything) I can't wait for how they portray the ending.

I'm sure Jennifer Garner is why most of us tuned into this series. She's always a joy to watch. It's not the first time she's carried most of a movie herself. Her character reacted to most situations as a typical wife and step-mom could have reacted. The setting throughout was really beautiful -mostly California. Strangely, I kept having "deja vu" moments where I was reminded of past fictional disappearing husbands. Lifetime probably has a month of them. The teenage step-daughter was belligerent and sassy - and not in a cute way. This quickly grew very annoying but eventually she grew out of it. The rest of the cast - hubby; police; friends; and bad guys; were all good. The story did crawl along, though. The pace was really too slow to maintain suspense. The story possibly could have been told in one of two fewer episodes. Jennifer Garner fans will be okay with it.

The show follows Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey as they are searching for her husband that has suddenly disappeared.

It's not that the show was bad, but it wasn't particularly memorable. The first 3 episodes are slow and kind of boring. The stepdaughter is on another level of mean, and Hannah has no idea how to manage this teenage girl. Then we have two episodes that are good, and the last ones that were such disappointing reveals. I suppose that I came out of it thinking "that's it?! Really?"

I finished this show two or three weeks ago (I'm late in my review posting), and i already don't fully remember the twist... i don't know if it was the story, as the book is quite successful, but the show was missing something for me. Perhaps a show format was a mistake in this case. It dragged on the story for too long, and there was a lack of displaying details. I understand the difficult task of wanting to adapt a book into an audiovisual format, and to want as many elements of the books as possible, but that's the thing about adaptations. They are made to adapt and change the story to fit the different medium. I think this show could have been a movie, and it probably would have been a better adaptation, as we didn't need that much filler to tell this story. As for the acting, it was good actors, but no outstanding performance.

If you like an afternoon slow thriller that you don't fully need to pay attention to, sure watch it. But there are so many other shows out there that are worth more your time than this. But you won't get anything more than an okay experience watching this. I usually love Apple TV shows, but this one was a bit of a let down.

I think this would have been much more pleasant to watch if the step daughter was not so disgustingly rude. How any parent can have their child speak to adults in that kind of way is beyond me. Do we have to endure this type of behaviour in reality and on screen? What on earth for... Wish Garner wouldn't be such a doormat and would have not accepted this rude girl talking to her like that. And especially the husband not punishing his daughter for her rude behaviour towards his wife. Tired of spoilt unruly youngsters... But the story is interesting and I am looking forward to finding out what happened.

This wasn't terrible, but kind of dull and mediocre. It started off with an interesting premise, but then became increasingly boring and illogical. Most of the series could have been avoided with some skilled use of Google. Instead, the "mystery" is drawn out with awkward avoidance of technology and inexplicable character choices. It somehow managed to feel too long, but also too shallow. I think there was a good story there, but it was buried in an attempt to be a plot-driven thriller, rather than a character-centered drama. Also, Jennifer Garner is a beautiful woman, but her lack of ability to move her forehead and obviously fake eyelashes were really distracting. It's unfortunate that Hollywood puts such enormous pressure on actresses to look forever young, at the cost of looking natural and interesting.

Not the worst thing to watch, by any means, but not especially memorable.