The crime-time limited series has been a blessing to television.
FX’sThe People v. O.J.
But the truth of her innate depression and deadening circumstances is more nuanced than it appears.
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Fragments of memory flick at prior horrors and regrets.
A shame-oriented Catholic upbringing.
An image of a woman beckoning Cora into a hotel room.
It’s an assertive bid to be born again as a prestige TV actress.
One hot day at the beach, with her existential crisis boiling, Cora has a psychotic break.
What would seem to be an open-and-shut case for Det.
Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) becomes an obsessive inquiry.
Did the victim actually let his murder happen?
And why does Harry who’s got demons and guilt of his own care so damn much?
But the oppressive portentousness squanders it the heavy-handed slo-mo and symbolism, the glum gravitas of the acting.
Hopefully, that will improve as the series unfolds.
Yet the critiques of female roles and religion are familiar and superficial.
The mystery might keep you, but there are too many flaws to loveThe Sinner.
