This show had so much potential, especially for what it was preaching throughout it, but there were too many dull moments to recommend watching it, especially the ending.
The first season was a little slow, but that is expected since they were setting the tone and giving the information we needed for context. The second season's first half was slow as well, but the second half was easily the best of the entire show. Then they dropped the ball on the third season and the ending just felt like a mockery of women after all they went through.
What this show did do well was incorporate themes of women's issues seamlessly into it by using Stella as the image of a strong feminist. From her sexual encounters, to sticking up for herself, to having to pick up the pieces of her male colleagues. I loved this show so much for that alone, but nothing more sadly, especially because of the way they went about ending it. For all this show did, they basically let him get away with everything he did to those poor women, just like how a lot of men do when they do terrible things. I would have been more forgiving if he was locked away for life, but that ending was just so beyond stupid and out of character for a narcissist like him.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2016-10-31T07:11:27Z
OMG! This show just gets better & better! I LOVE THIS SHOW. SO MUCH - THE ACTING IS INCREDIBLE!
If ur all about action packed, nonstop chases & gunfights - THIS IS NOT THE SHOW. FOR U - UR A.D.D. WILL BE IN OVERDRIVE!
But if have no problem sitting still & REALLY PAYING ATTENTION to all the little details, the way ppl look each other in the eye when then talk, listening for the little details in individual conversations so u catch the lies, building intensity, that starts out skow as it begins to boil, then maybe simmers at high feel ur hesrtbeat faster intensity, until when u have been sinmering so long u least ezpect it it boils completely out of control into insanely intense dramatic & sometimes action packed scenes. The kind that make u get a lump in ur throat, as u sit on the edge of ur seat focused on notbing but the show as if u were actually there with them & ur heart is pounding so loud u can practically hear it in ur ears. If THAT IS THE INTENSITY U LIKE THAN THIS IS THE SHOW FOR U!
IT IS DARK, & SERIOUS, SUSPENSEFUL, & NERVE WRACKING, YET WILD & EXCITING, W/GRAPHIC & EXPLOSIVE, INTENSLY REAL MOMENTS OF VIOLENCE, UNLIKE ANY OTHER SHOW ON TV TODAY.
IT IS LIKE LITERALLY LOOKING INTO THE DARK SIDE OF TRUE CRIME, W/ALL ITS GRIT & DISTURBING MOMENTS, LAID OUT IN FRONT OF U, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO VIEW AS THEY ACTUALLY ARE, NOT POLISHED & SCRUBBED FOR TV VIEWER AUDIENCES AT ALL. SHOCKING, YET STRANGLY INTRIGUING, & LIKE A CAR WRECK U CAN'T SEEM TO LOOK AWAY UR COMPELLED TO KNOW & SEE MORE, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED & WHY!
GILLIAN ANDERSON & JAMIE DORNAN BOTH DESERVE A SHIT TON OF AWARDS FOR THEIR STELLER ACTING CHOPS IN THIS ONE!
PLEASE GIVE US SEASON 4 GIVE US A NEW CASE FOR STELLA TO INVESTIGATE!