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Agreed, how can there be a season 2? No thanks.

I have read so many reviews regarding this series, good and bad. While I agree with the positive reviews because I enjoyed watching, I also have an appreciation and understanding for some of the negative reviews too. Nothing can be perfect…it is fiction after all. My approach is to think really hard about what they wanted us to focus on. Yes, let’s agree the police investigation, or lack thereof, was completely implausible…and Max was like a keystone cop. Or that the killer, once revealed, came out of left field. Or the unnecessary level of disrespect that Tamsin showed her mother. I too did not want Nancy to take the fall. I was frankly pissed that her parents covered for her, Tamsin should have gone to jail…pregnant or not. But what about the relationships?, ‘the pacts’ that existed, whether conscious or subconscious….intentional or unintentional. The obvious pact was between the four women, Anna, Cat, Nancy, Louie…that was the core pact for which the series was based. But then we see other pacts reveal themselves as we understand the dynamics of each relationship. We learn why Jack did not want to see his father, Arwel, why he swore he would never bring children into the world and why he was an a-class dick to everyone….because his father had sexually abused him. Yet that was a pact between them both…Jack gets to run the brewery like an idiot, Arwel’s dirty secret stays safe. Until of course Arwel’s sister, Louie, connects the dots. Not only does Louie remind Arwel how he inherited the brewery from their father (their father left the brewery to Arwel because he was sexually abused by him), she realized Arwel had continued the pattern by sexually abusing Jack…yet the pact between Louie and Arwel never broke…not even when they were each questioned by the police and not even after death when Arwel committed suicide. Even Tamsin and her brother had a pact. By the end we really see the gravity of their sibling dedication. And actually their pact of murder and lies were not widely known by the end. And clearly the other pact between them was about the brother’s homosexuality…she was his beard so he could meet/be with guys. Can we talk about the pact, or should I say the one-sided pact, between Nancy and her loser husband!! This women sacrificed everyone dear to her to try and dig her husband out of the financial whole he left them in…she secretly threatened then blackmailed her friends all in an effort to keep a roof over their heads, after he lost his job then gambled away their life savings. And the very moment the tides turn and Nancy needs support, her weasel husband throws her under the bus when he is questioned by police. Nancy assumed her husband would have shown her the same level of loyalty she showed him, but not so…he sang like a canary and mentioned everything but the kitchen sink to the police. Not once considering the sacrifices Nancy made for him…in particular not telling anyone he could no longer function as a provider in the home. The pact in the woods allowed us to see how these relationships were connected in their own strange way. This is what I chose to take way from the series.