tasha McL

This is one of the best shows I've watched, that conjures up so many feelings and a strong connection to the cognitive dissonance Grace is experiencing. *Spoilers, like seriously don't read if you haven't watched it yet*. Grace, a psychologist who specialises in domestic violence and is in the process of writing a book on how we usually see a person's red flags early in a relationship, but ignore them until it's too late. There is a murder, there is an obvious killer. Yet the series fills us with doubt, confusion, the desire to hold onto the tiny slither of hope that an 'against all reason' situation is present. That's exactly what he wants you to think. The series doesn't just show a sociopathic gaslighter at work, but gaslights you in the process. It hones in a woman falling victim to her own advice, because this isn't a man who is exempt. Her father saw through him, she projected what she wanted and gave him the tools to keep up that facade. It's truly one of my favourite shows and illustrates just how easy it is to slide off reason.

Definitely overly dramatic and slow. Overall I found the show had lots of missing pieces. I had tried to enjoy it, but there were lots of cringey parts. For starters, the actor playing the twins constantly pulled weird faces, and their relationship just didn't feel plausible. Identical twins usually aren't completely identical, if they swap each year there would bound to be differences or gaps in knowledge that surely those closest would notice, and if Lenny was coercing Gina into it.. why keep going?! Also the part where they show the backstory of the swapping was followed by Lenny beginning to explain herself in the interrogation, yet the backstory was from Gina's perspective? The extra stories with their dad, Jack, all of it seemed irrelevant and unfinished. The ending was the most uneventful of it all.. no justice, no real constellation.. waste of time.

Save yourself the time and don't watch. I watched this because of the great reviews on rotten tomatoes. It's one of those weird movies trying to play on a theatrical meaning, like midsommar, but extremely poorly executed that doesn't actually make sense.