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Too much broken families affairs in a overly afloose knitted storyline. Mr. Bana, as always, turned out to be as cool as he matured. It's just so cliched as 99.99% movies and or TV drama serials since day one when both were invented, full of lowlifes, divorced couples still didn't cut off the links completely due to kids involved, so many broken families, relationships gone sour. Cops got divorced. Depression, drinking or drug problems. Murdered young woman mysterious hung on El Captain cliff in Yosemite Park...This new series didn't bring any new stuff to us but cliche after cliche with moody soundtracks as endless fillers. This series brought us nothing but enchanting sceneries periodically, reminding us how beautiful the Yosemite Park is, promoting tourism at the same time. Nothing worth mentioning further.

I cannot accept this movie's premise as it is. We know that this single-parent mom, a German white woman, a former Special Forces soldier, loves her son so much after her husband died. We can understand how she loves her son. But at the very beginning of this movie, this supposedly well-trained, very lethal Special Forces soldier proves herself not to be a careless person. She is not as good as an ordinary housewife and mother. She almost lost her kid in the subway when she was talking on the phone. Then she commited a more ser serious and unforgivable mistake in the American Embassy. She allowed her little kid to play in the playroom, alone, and left to go checking out her appointment. There's no other parents in that playroom when she left. How possible? It's like you leave a child in an unattended vehicle, or leave a kid in a nobody around playground in a park.

In order to create the leading role losing her child in a security-tight American Embassy, the screenplay writer and director, Christian Zübert, has decided to give us such a ridiculous scenario, a highly unlikely and impossible premise.