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episode 1. What makes it great is that there are no clear cut explanations. Eddie isn’t an awful parent, but he could have done more. We all can or could have. How little we know about our own kid’s lives at that stage is so true. Makes you relieved that your kids are grown and made it through it.

I was all in after Episode 1. Thought Episode 2 was a bit slow, but still following. Episode 3 was an incredibly boring milked waste of 50+ minutes. Ditto the final episode, which resolved nothing in a satisfying way. The story was presented up front as somewhat of a mystery, and in the end there was no big reveal, and I can't say I ever really grasped what its point was.

Which seems to me to be to humanize the families of kids who commit terrible crimes. There is not much difference between the cop's kid and Jamie. The cop basically admits he's a crappy Dad. There is a lot of randomness involved in life. "There, but for the grace of God, goes I". I thought they played on the hopes that probably arise in these families, "Oh, he was bullied, maybe that will make the crime less serious." In the end, those hopes are disappointed.

I thought the acting was fantastic. The kid who played Jamie was amazing. You may remember his dad from Snatch, where he played Turkish's sidekick.

I think their intent was to basically show an almost real-time experience of everyone connected to the event. And that's fine. Acting was very good. My issue is that it was presented as if it were almost going to be a murder mystery/"whodunnit" type of story in the tagline and trailer, but in the end, it's almost like that was all irrelevant. Seemed like we were left to presume that the kid maybe/probably was guilty, and that his actual guilt was maybe even secondary to the point of the plot.

And episode 3 was, in my opinion, excruciatingly drawn out.

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