01-30-2023, 09:31 AM
We started watching The Sinner (Netflix) starring Bill Pullman and Jessica Biehl over on Netflix in our endless quest to find that new show to watch. The synopsis for the show was Pullman solves supernatural mysteries. It's going on its fourth season. We made it partway through the first episode. The majority of what we saw was Biehl as a dissatisfied house wife, struggling with spouse and in-laws, until she snaps and kills a guy at the lake while on a family outing. It was shocking to see. The Pullman finally shows up as the detective. Biehl confesses but Pullman wants to know why. There is something off about Pullman. We first seeing him spying on a waitress until he gets the call about the murder at the lake. He does the detective bit but then goes to see the woman he was spying on at her house. She's not his wife but she asks him about his wife. Then they go inside. Pullman grabs her boob. The woman slaps Pullman. Then the woman tells Pullman to kneel. He complies. She steps on his fingers, grinding them into ground, which explains the bruises underneath his fingernails. That's when we turned it off. Not quite what we had in mind.
So we went to The Devil's Hour which seemed to have almost the same languid pacing. Young single mother social worker has a creepy child but she keeps having flashes of a woman who shoots herself and another woman who is an abusive relationship. She also keeps popping awake at 3:33 which corresponds to the time the woman commits suicide. More is going on in this show. The creepy kid has creepy problems at school about bullying. He likes to be by his mother's bed staring at her when she pops awake at the appointed time. All through this is Peter Capaldi, only seen once from the front but usually shown from the back talking to the Social Worker about Deja Vu. In all these shots, Social Worker has a swollen lip. It's all very weird and trippy. The end kind of brings everything together but we still don't know what Capaldi is doing.
Hard pass on The Sinner. Might watch some more of The Devil's Hour.
So we went to The Devil's Hour which seemed to have almost the same languid pacing. Young single mother social worker has a creepy child but she keeps having flashes of a woman who shoots herself and another woman who is an abusive relationship. She also keeps popping awake at 3:33 which corresponds to the time the woman commits suicide. More is going on in this show. The creepy kid has creepy problems at school about bullying. He likes to be by his mother's bed staring at her when she pops awake at the appointed time. All through this is Peter Capaldi, only seen once from the front but usually shown from the back talking to the Social Worker about Deja Vu. In all these shots, Social Worker has a swollen lip. It's all very weird and trippy. The end kind of brings everything together but we still don't know what Capaldi is doing.
Hard pass on The Sinner. Might watch some more of The Devil's Hour.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm