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who else thinks the series should have been longer?



When Jonathan said early on that Elena was obsessed with him and his family, that turned out to be the one thing he actually did NOT lie about - Elena was indeed obsessed and tried every possible way of insinuating herself into his life.

The problem for me was that not enough time on the show was spent on exploring that aspect of their relationship (I mean, the actress was barely in the series at all). You know how they say about art "show, don't tell"? Well, that's precisely it - we were told, not shown.

It was the same thing with the sudden bombshell in ep 5 that Jonathan actually was a true sociopath. That came out of nowhere on the show, and I really wish that part of his character was better developed.

All of this maybe could have been done better if the show was say 10 episodes long, not 6, but I guess given the caliber of some of the names involved that would have been just too expensive to do.

As it was, however, I am not sure why even put out something like this when you don't have the creative freedom to produce a quality product. IMO this isn't something anyone involved can be proud of in today's demanding TV market.


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Disagree. I think the length was actually just right. As for Elena, she was obsessed, but the only person who kept saying was Jonathan, a known liar. So I discounted every time he said it. What I thought was telling was the doctor/former colleague who said they were not discrete and he had ignored many warnings. He also said he loved her repeatedly, also crap. That's the issue, Hugh Grant's was, if nothing else, and stone-cold liar.

As for him snapping and killing Elena, she seemed to ignore verbal than physical abuse and warnings, so dysnfunctional relationship x 100.

I enjoyed the series.

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I enjoyed the series.

I think there are a lot more of us who didn't, overall.


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Fair enough. It seems like a large proportion of viewers did not like the ending, expecting or hoping for a twist on who killed Elena.

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