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So one unifying event, a murder and a rape on a married couple (man gets killed - wife gets raped), becomes the excuse for us to take a deep look into the lives of the affected people.
Besides getting acquainted with the two affected families we are also introduced to the four suspects.
The deep look involves a glance into "what lies beneath the surface". Here secrets and conflicts travel to the surface ignited by the crime.
Blame and a need to place responsibility in the most insisting manner is a major theme for the two involved families. It is of course a very realistic theme to appear in a dysfunctional family that are faced with a great tragedy but the danger is, that this very easily can become very tiresome without any progression. It also allowed to overshadow the rest of the story. And in fact this is my biggest disappointment. Too much time is put into this aspect.
Further a high focus is set on character development and it seems that this in a way competes with the detective story.... You can have a whole episode where no progression is being made as far as solving the crime goes. You can kind of forget that an investigation is taking place because focus on showing us the consequences playes such a big part in the story....
(Spoiler).... I gave up in episode 7 - fourteen minutes inside the episode. The mother to the killed guy has a really strained relationship to her other son. She loves him but he has given her a warning that he is tired of what he considers racism for her part and for several things in his childhood. Despite of this she tries to persuade his girlfriend (who is ethnic Asian) not getting married to him. A total suicidal suggestion under these circumstances. The purpose of this scene is not good storytelling but to create new suspense through conflicts. It simply doesn´t add up - sorry to say its soap opera.
Regards Simon
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score 4/10
SimonHeide 26 March 2018
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