do not like this character so far. The plot is promising
No Roger, no Rerun, no rent
I'm liking her more and more as the episode goes on.
Definitely do not like Jenny. And there's something fishy going on at the Page house. Pretty sure Jenny and the kid have something going on.
I like her! I thought the acting was great by everyone! Her father is on death row for a crime she knows he didn't commit and you can really feel her anguish at the death of an innocent man. I'm hooked. I'm not sure about the D.A. though. Is he paranoid? Is he criminally ambitious? Who knows?
shareCan a show with an entire cast of unlikeable and annoying characters survive? Probably not.
shareIf I'm not mistaken, this show is slated for a limited run.
shareI just finished watching the first 2 episodes and I am getting hooked. I have worked on death row cases and I can feel how they are feeling. I worked on one night after hours filing documents to get a stay. The man was mentally retarded from being beaten in his head by his father. It was after that that they decided mentally ill prisoners couldn't get the death penalty.
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It was after that that they decided mentally ill prisoners couldn't get the death penalty.
one such show came close to success, the Sopranos or some sh't.
shareI found her a little hard to follow until the flashback of her dad in jail. That said, its still a bit vague why she fought to save a man who didn't want saving. The death row inmate was not her dad, so she's doing some weird displacement which will likely get her in trouble throughout the series.
shareI thought her dad was still alive and she just lied to the guy.
I think her issue is principle. Corrupt people put her dad in Jail and corrupt people put him on death row. She couldn't care less about the guy on death row. She wants to get back at the corrupt people who put him there and if that means she has to go through a guy on death row then so be it.
I think she also picked the entire "death row" thing because that issue gets more recognition than say.... life in prison sentences so she could get glamor from the death row issue regardless if the death row guy wanted it or not.
I think you're right about her lying about her dad already being dead. I wasn't sure at first - thought it was a flashback - but then her cop boyfriend went to meet Dad so that would be in real time.
I don't like her character - just because you know one person on death row that you believe is innocent doesn't mean everyone else is or that everyone else got a bad deal.
I think the actress is doing a great job. And yeah, I find the character unlikable. It's her narrow-minded focus that is off putting.
I get that her personal issues have caused her to believe that the police and prosecutors are corrupt. But to believe every single one is corrupt? It's merely the flip side of the belief that every single criminal is a scumbag.
Neither point of view is particularly, I don't know the word I'm looking for, righteous.
But I guess her coming out of that mindset is going to be the "growth" of that character over the story.
"I am allowed to think everyone is stupid for 10 minutes."-- Randy Susan Meyers
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Why should she be likable? Funny how so many tv shows have male leads who are completely unredeemable *beep* and nobody cares but as soon as a female lead is not flawless, it's a problem.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco