The show is slow. This has to be said. The slowness is a minus, not a neutral or a plus. It's the only major weakness of the show, which prevents it from being a 10/10 show.
Watching an episode a week may feel like nothing happens, but if you watch 2 - 4 a day, the story feels faster. There are episodes where nothing really happens, but if the episodes were longer, say 2-3 hours long, one would feel that something did happen, just slowly. It's all about how you cut it.
The story is very interesting and it's simplistic to say that it's about a man who adjusts to life after prison. His release from death row has a domino effect on the town, his lawyer, his former friends, the police, and every single member of his family. The effect is not immediate, different things take their own time to be apparent, but it goes from subtle to dramatic as time goes on.
-2 for the slowness, but 8/10 still.
Don't expect this to be a story about someone who has an existential moment in a mega-supermarket or is shocked by technology - it's a story about people. There is very little "these are the things you missed in the last two decades" - the story is more about what happened to his mind in solitary confinement on death row than how much the world changed on the outside.
Other than the personal/family drama, there is also the legal drama as the charges he is facing are not dropped and finally there is some detective drama, as the sheriff investigates the case, the inconsistencies in the trial, and subsequent matters that surface after and as a result of his release.
Watching an episode a week may feel like nothing happens, but if you watch 2 - 4 a day, the story feels faster. There are episodes where nothing really happens, but if the episodes were longer, say 2-3 hours long, one would feel that something did happen, just slowly. It's all about how you cut it.
The story is very interesting and it's simplistic to say that it's about a man who adjusts to life after prison. His release from death row has a domino effect on the town, his lawyer, his former friends, the police, and every single member of his family. The effect is not immediate, different things take their own time to be apparent, but it goes from subtle to dramatic as time goes on.
-2 for the slowness, but 8/10 still.
Don't expect this to be a story about someone who has an existential moment in a mega-supermarket or is shocked by technology - it's a story about people. There is very little "these are the things you missed in the last two decades" - the story is more about what happened to his mind in solitary confinement on death row than how much the world changed on the outside.
Other than the personal/family drama, there is also the legal drama as the charges he is facing are not dropped and finally there is some detective drama, as the sheriff investigates the case, the inconsistencies in the trial, and subsequent matters that surface after and as a result of his release.
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