This reminded me more of a movie than a miniseries. It is beautifully shot. Everyone in this project seems at the top of their game.
Here is the basic story: A female homicide detective has one more day on the job before she pulls up stakes and moves with her son to live in Sonoma, California. In three weeks, she plans to get married. On this final day at work, she meets her replacement, Stephen Holder, and together the two of them discover a murder, a local teenage girl found in the trunk of a car that can be traced to a political candidate. In the thirteen episodes that make up this show, the mystery will be solved as to who killed this girl.
I really like the women in this show. Mireille Enos who plays the homicide detective, Sarah Linden, genuinely seems like the type of person that an employer would do anything to keep. She comes across as smart, quiet, dedicated, thorough. She has a calm presence, but it is very believable to me that once she becomes engaged in something, that it's hard for her to let go. She is a strong and unique force, and I'm very happy that she anchors this show.
I have always been a fan of Michelle Forbes since I first saw her in "Homicide:Life on the Streets." She has always seemed to me to be the type of actress who has rebelled against the system, who has resisted being placed in any sort of a mold, who has always been fiery and cranky and would prefer to have some character warts. She has an adversion to blandness, and I am always glad to see that she's part of this project.
I also really liked Kacey Rohl as the best friend of the girl who was killed. She seemed very natural and seems to understand that less is more. She seemed to do that with true depth. I hope to see her in more things in the future.
The funny thing about this show, two episodes in, is that I feel like I really don't know much at all yet about the girl who died. I am interested in and care a lot about the people who were somehow connected to her, but she is still an enigma to me. It will be interesting to see if she become a full-blown character as things progress, or whether there will always be a strange hole in the center of things.
By the end of the first two episodes, I had grown to really like Joel Kinnaman who plays Stephen Holder, the detective who has come to replace Sarah Linden at work. At first, he comes across as someone not suited for this job. It made sense that Sarah would stick around and watch to see if he would adjust, which he slowly does with considerable elan. He has become fascinating to watch, and I'm really looking forward to see what he does in future episodes. It is really an excellent show.
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