a review

Yeah, it was meh. Very heavy-handed on the woes and misery of living in a small declining Rust Belt town. Does everyone really know everyone else in these places? Does the whole town attend every wedding like it’s the barn-raising in Witness?

My main gripe is that the crime at the center of the story is not compelling. The victim is a nobody character, only on screen for less than a minute before he turns up as a corpse later on. His wife and son are also barely sketched into the plot. There is no mystery, we know who did it and why. The perpetrators are not sympathetic characters so there is no great tragedy, like in the excellent series Your Honor where the crime and cover-up are the undoing of the main character and his son. I don’t see the motivation for Daniel’s character covering up for his quasi-girlfriend’s son.