Roger Paine

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My wife and I both love Gugu, and we -- until now -- trusted Reese Witherspoon's judgment. "Surface" starts out strongly and we really enjoyed the first half of the episodes -- and then the show just literally lost the plot. The last episode is mostly backstory, which would have been better told in snippets in earlier episodes, and half a dozen plot lines are left hanging in the end. Very unsatisfying.

Lucy Foley is a good writer, and I rather liked the multiple first-person storytelling, but Lucy overdoes her teases of us readers: there is a dead body but she withholds not only who it is but whether it's male or female. She'd be a better writer if she trusted us -- withhold for a chapter or two, but not for almost the entire remainder of the story. If we had known who died (but not the killer), that would have added real interest and depth to the storytelling. In the end, I thought the story fell flat.