Monica Dennis

I just wrote a long review, hit a wrong key and lost it all. Sigh. Fine. I'll bottom line it. My likes: 1 - Tom and Pete and their novice ways. I could have just watched them for all 8 episodes. They are great together and they are fun even though they are quite serious in what they are doing. 2 - Sophie and her weird co-parenting with her husband. When she was on Sherlock, I felt like Sherlock did. I didn't want to like her but I couldn't help myself. Same thing here. What annoyed me: 1 - Jenny's reasoning of not going home after discovering what she did. This is actually what bugged me the most. Clearly Tom was a little whipped by his daughters because of his own guilt, so I'm supposed to believe a teenage girl couldn't have guilted her dad into listening to her? I mean this went on for 6 days, I think, and unless I am wrong about where she was during all this time, she was NOT with Bobby for all 6 days so what the heck? She couldn't have decided enough is enough and go tell her dad what she found? I was hoping there was something more so I could justify her actions. I was hoping maybe Tom was more twisted than it seemed so I could understand her. Alas, I can't justify her actions, so I just want to slap her instead. 2 - Speaking of slapping someone, Sia and her entire idiotic family who - I am pretty sure - live in the 21st century and shouldn't be so easily convinced that an accidental death at a teen party would instantly mean jail time for the vapid girl. There was a moment with her when I thought she might be even darker than it seemed and frankly I hoped she was to justify us spending all this time with them. But it was a wimpy fake out. They couldn't even do what they were alluding to? Chickens! They should have just gone there. I hated that family. Period. 3 - The plot. Yep, the whole reason behind everything turned out to be ridiculous. I won't spoil it for someone who hasn't seen it, but just like Sia and her family's faulty thinking, the thinking behind the coverup is just as faulty. It's hard to believe anyone would think it's worth the stuff that happens as a result of it. I believe the lies and the guilt, but not the rest. 4 - Oh and while I'm talking faulty thinking, the culprit behind the French teacher's debacle is just a fool. Maybe someone could convince me how someone like this would do such a thing, but right now it strikes me as not plausible. I can see murder coming out of this situation, but this? Please. 5 - Wait! There's more! The detective following Pete? And I mean the 2nd time she did so? I found myself rolling my eyes at that one. Yeah, yeah. It's hard to say. Blah blah blah. Don't be so - I hate to say the word again but - stupid. You already came out to Tom. The chase was unnecessary. Michael's odd accent is something I can't decide on and it was originally the reason I couldn't watch this show the first time I tried. Hard to suspend my disbelief when Americans fake accents. I don't know why I'm so biased like that either because we let Brits and Aussies and New Zealanders and Canadians pretend to be Americans all the time and we don't chide them for it. I mean he was actually kinda adorable in the way he spoke, but I couldn't stop thinking it was an American trying to play in the pool with Brits and pretend he's something he's not. We live in a cross cultural world. He couldn't just be an American with whatever adapted accent one gets after living in another country for a long time? But, it's Michael C. Hall so I tend to forgive him most things. Watch it? Don't watch it? I can't say. After all, I did get through the whole thing, so I guess that's saying something right there, but that was truly primarily because of Tom and his friendship with Pete. They are the only people I'd even want to talk to at the community party. But I can say too many people are giving this a glowing review and I think that's a lie. I guess the faulty thinking is contagious.