Started off gripping of course. But it becomes boring very quick. The anguish isn't felt at all. Very poor writing. Typical of Disney really. If it was me I'd have started with More of a focus on the daughter. Allowing the audience to get to know her and be drawn into her new friendship with the other child as well so that when the inevitable happened you feel it, you feel the betrayal too.
Instead the camera follows the mother around like she's the most important part of the series. The child kidnapping is almost forgotten.
Don't get me started on the dad. He's a lawyer. Meaning he spent four years in law school, refining a multitude of skills that turn him into a responsible, logical and highly functional person. And yet when he's at home he acts like an irresponsible teenager snacking on Cheetos and watching crap day time tv and Who doesn't notice their child is two hours late home.
The journalist discovers a key plot point about the dad, that the police have already found. She then comes to the ludicrous decision that because the mother hasn't got an Instagram history extending a number of years that she must be hiding a whole other life. I mean come on...really? I only got Instagram a few years ago myself and I can guarantee not everyone who already had Facebook even bothered with it unless someone had a baby and they had to engage in it. The writing gives her plot ques to reveal rather than allowing the natural progression of good investigation.
Typical Disney they focus on the visuals. The colour pop filters and over the top visuals. The blue walls and the paisley ducking carpets.
The acting is awful. These are seasoned actors and yet I've never seen anything like it. The police officer is just cringe. The journalist is shit at her job, because a lot of her discovery (if you can call it that) is just baseless and basically something she's imagined. But yet she still calls her boss with an idea for the story like she's never gone to uni and learnt that obviously any claim has to be verified. The mum and dad don't even seem upset. I have a theory the dad planned it all with this Sarah bird he was bonking so I'll park any blame on him.
But the mum I would have expected to go through a roller coaster of emotions. But there's never a blotch on that woman's skin. Nor does she look horrified. Or vague. She's just odd. Wooden acting all round.
Anyway that's as far as I can go. I've stopped watching it. It's just bloody awful. Where do you find these writers?? Seriously!!
I've given one star for the acting of sarah and one star for the decor of the house. Actually know I'll deduct a star because km not giving stars for how wonderful your back drop is.