Based on the novel by Karin Slaughter, the thriller sees a young woman (Bella Heathcote) searching for the truth about her mother (Toni Collette) and their family history in the wake of a violent incident.
Toni Collette, Bella Heathcote, Jessica Barden, David Wenham, Joe Dempsie, Jacob Scipio, Omari Hardwick, Gil BirminghamInitially, the series looks promising enough. The pilot starts by setting the scene in quick, easily legible strokes: the sleepy seaside town, the unassuming middle-aged mom, the aimless artist daughter, the loving but occasionally touchy relationship between them.
As ever, Collette is fascinating to watch. Laura is a slippery character by design. She shifts on a dime from fiercely protective to coldly indifferent, terrified to incandescent with rage, and often it’s difficult to tell where the real Laura ends and her deceptions or defense mechanisms begin. But Collette maintains a firm grasp on her throughout, corralling all the character’s many moods into a single complicated woman in a state of long-overdue transformation.
Meanwhile, the series works to keep up a reasonable sense of momentum. Twists and turns drop with clockwork regularity, and little time is wasted on wheel-spinning or unnecessary detours. They’re complemented by cryptic glimpses into Laura’s past: a younger Laura at a piano, a man shot onstage at a business conference, a frightened woman fleeing her husband in the dead of night.
What makes the series’ mediocrity all the more frustrating is that touch upon the germ of a meaningful idea. “Contrary to what you may think, my life didn’t begin the moment you were born,” Laura snaps at Andy — and stung as Andy looks, the line gets at something true and relatable about the lopsided dynamics between parents and children.
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