Detective Holly O'Rourke and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice.Detective Holly O'Rourke and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice.Detective Holly O'Rourke and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice.
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It wasn't. In any way that matters.
The story, the plot, the twists and turns of an exciting criminal investigation, all are nowhere to be found. The story developed like something you'd watch on TV news, but there's a way to make stories like this compelling. This show fails in that.
Another unbearable thing is the interpersonal relationship - it feels like the writers heard that people on crime TV shows converse about things other than work, and peppered the plot with unbearable, boring drivel that helped with nothing and had no relation to anything.
This show feels like it was written by a computer. The only saving grace is the lead actress, who tried to bring life into this flogged horse.
My advice, don't bother.
Most of the acting is fairly good. Unfortunately, the character development is too shallow across the board.
The lead isn't given a lot of emotional range to display. She literally never gets angry, she just accepts and withstands and breezes right past things. One can't understand her personal motivations to either achieve in her career, or to mess things up in her personal life, because very low insight is offered. It's another generalized shame parade for a character like her, and then she just plows through, taking things in stride and offering more distancing to her reality than anything else.
This show also doesn't display much of 'justice', in terms of outcomes - no criminal prosecutions are depicted for the large majority of the production, and almost everything done in the pursuit of 'law enforcement' turns out to be a pointless fail. They are regularly putting more people in jeopardy than they offer functional protection to. (Too real, perhaps?)
It also has a thinly veiled anti-abortion narrative, partially delivered by a child, which is really a grasping effort.
It features an elderly paternal figure that applies judgement and advice inappropriately, for almost any scene he's acting poorly in. He's on the outside of everything - actions, conversations, factual details, but thinks his own personal wisdom makes his warrantless criticisms and blunt advice somehow functional, or helpful.
Shows that build around a 'strong female lead' of reproductive age should not still be leaning into a parade of criticisms against her and her 'shame' - to which she isn't very reactive, because she 'has hard job'. This is a sorry cop-out, not to make a pun, that keeps getting repeated, almost nauseatingly.
Lastly, a little more leavening humor (sans sex or death references) would've helped.
Very frustrating to watch and very predictable stories. The cinematography was wonderful, I must say with great open shots. Overall this was a difficult series to watch let alone finish.
If you're looking for another generic police show! Watch NCIS Sydney!
... script-writing could be a weakness for some, for one of the important storylines raises issues that do not get resolved, least not fully in this premier season, leading us all to believe there will at minimum be another season series, or another was least planned-for-anticipated... just as in life, this issue involved could go several differing ways, none of which would be satisfactory to all the show's characters or audiences watching ... looking hopefully forward to next season's happenings
... continually throughout this first season, the glaring script omission is 'why'... obviously answer most would indicate being age, getting an unplanned-opportunity probably-not to-be-presenting itself again... for having to expose oneself (and others close) through all the scrutiny-criticism from work colleagues and social relationships... stares-whispers surrounding this new-unexpected extramarital long-term-commitment are to be daunting for sure... not now remembering seeing this scenario being approached-tackled in a TV script previously, should make for quite-intriguing-viewing, detailed-handled-well throughout the next season series.
Gripping crime show that leaves you satisfied in more levels than one as you yearn for more especially after the last cliffhanger. Hope second season will Not be cancelled as we're already craving for more.
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- TriviaBased loosely on the real life murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove
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Maia Kirsner: I often wonder what it was like for Sonia. You come home same as always and someone out of the blue is trying to kill you no reason. You have no idea what is happening, the terror. I don't know how you'd feel knowing it's all about to end.
Holly O'Rourke: You do whatever it takes. You keep fighting until the end and then..
Holly O'Rourke: We're all that she's got.
Maia Kirsner: We all need someone.
Holly O'Rourke: I know.
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