Please someone tell me how this show got 94% on Rotten Tomatoes? Really? Just no, no. We all know Beil's uber-famous husband JT gave backstage passes in exchange for a nice and hot, red sauce score. We know.
Netflix's 'The Sinner' was a poor attempt at a mind-bending crime drama/thriller/wannabe hit TV show.
I watch a lot of crime dramas and I like good tv. But I've never watched a show before and needed to reddit my confusion with the story line just to restore my sanity, only to find out there are hundreds more people who have the same long list of questions that have no have answers. Literally, I thought I was going mad. But no, it seems the writers just royally *ucked up the plot in order to ensure their story line left us guessing. What a mother *ucking anti-climax that was. Yes, I'm mad, I wasted 8 hours of my life watching that crap and I now I'm wasting more of my time talking about it.
94%?!?!?! Shut the Front Door!
It eluded of darkness, but was actually a daisy field at night time.
There were so many things wrong with this tv show I don't even know where to begin. Character flaws, bad writing, subplot pot-holes and plot sink-holes, poor development. Oh, and how about the fact that the entire plot twist relied on the epic plot sink-hole, as in, if the writers didn't put a falsehood in the story line the whole plot would have failed to capture our attention and failed to develop into a story at all. But that's Hollywood and the average American viewer is a semi-retarded vegetable scoffing on Cheetos and slirping Diet Coke, they don't care because we got to see Biel semi-naked, fingering another woman and *ucking three different men on several occasions. When a plot marker is so significant it lands in the wikipedia episode description, but then the show goes onto pretend it never happened, you have to wonder if the producers were drunk or high while editing the show. How did all those people not see that HUGE plot flaw? Or did they and agree that todays viewers don't give a shit as long as they also show enough incest, tits, ass and blood to ensure the viewers forget there is a story line at all. Netflix's 'The Sinner' was a poor attempt at a mind-bending crime drama/thriller/wannabe hit TV show. It eluded of darkness, but was actually a daisy field at night time.
Here is a never ending list of everything wrong with this eye rolling disaster of a TV show: (there is more, I just got bored of wasting my time trying to remember all the times I yelled out, "oh come ON!" at the TV screen).
- Jessica darling, if you want to be taken seriously playing a 20 something year old girl 15 years too late, wear a t-shirt and look the part. At the age of 20 women naturally have silky smooth skin and a soft layer of baby padding to round the cheeks. Only fitness freaks have 0% body fat and ripped shoulder muscles with throbbing veins needed to supply the weight lifting biceps filled with protein infused blood. Ms Biel, if you don't want to take your role seriously and stop working out 2 hours a day for a couple of months and eat a cheeseburger once a week, wear a t-shirt to cover your bulging muscles so we believe your character is who you are trying to tell us she is. Or, here's a genius idea, set the tv show in the winter so you have to wear clothes! Bing...lightbulb moment! Oh wait, that would mean that Ms Biel would have to actually be good at acting so we weren't all gawking at her biceps instead of paying attention to the shitty storyline.
- The plot sink-hole. The parents said their daughter died 1 month after the girls disappeared. They said she died. The mother said it and the camera then showed an urn on the shelf. Why would her parents put an urn on the shelf of their beloved daughter if they didn't know she was actually dead. They play out like the mom didn't care anymore because her daughters both betrayed her by running away, but what Catholic mother would actually do that? Totally unrealistic. Furthermore, why would the parents lie to the police, mislead to police into thinking their daughter was dead? Surely, if the police were visiting to find out more about why their other daughter killed someone, they'd think to ask, 'why don't you ask our youngest daughter who ran away with her 5 years ago?' If the writers didn't make the mother lie, didn't show the urn and didn't lead the viewer to think she died in her mothers arms of the debilitating cancer she'd been fighting her whole life, we might have guessed she was involved in the elusive 4th of July party night.
- Biel's character Cora was a slut and an idiot. When you walk into a room with 3 older men sporting hard ons taller than Hitler's salute, racks of cocaine on the table, bottles of expensive booze, weird music and trippy wallpaper, in a hidden garden house of a mansion in the middle of the woods with no way to escape or get home, you are a *ucking idiot if you don't carefully proceed to your nearest exit or call your mama to rescue you. NOTHING good (and nothing did) come from that ridiculous cocktail of bad pleasures. Especially after the way the boyfriend treated his ex-girlfriend in front of her, the weird way his friend was touching her leg in the study and the sudden obsession the 'nice guy' has with her dying sister.
- Incest kinda? No one. I repeat, no one wants to watch two sisters, especially when one is dying, fondle each other out of pity. Gross. I don't even want to talk about it anymore. Maybe it's a dirty guy thing...I looked over at my husband during that scene, he too looked like he wanted to vomit. No thanks Netflix, you are not HBO and this is not Game of Thones, leave it out.
- She shares her sisters 'last night of pleasure' story with her mother as if her mother wouldn't vomit listening to all the sins her daughter partook in, a b-line straight to Hell! She says, "and she got to have sex" like it was a long lost dream of her mothers to hear that her underage daughter had sex out of wedlock and with a total stranger. Honestly, the worst character in all this was the mother, second worst was Biel's lead character Cora.
- The ex boyfriends story line was crap, the whole drug dealing thing unrealistic, the girlfriend with the baby in the house selling to strangers, idiot. Oh man, they should have just put ape make-up and fake hair on all the actors. The whole story would have been more believable if they were pre-historic ape people with half sized brains.
- The detective was weird and his obsession with nail stomping even weirder. Ok fine, he has a S&M thing, that's cool, we get it, lots of people do. But *ucking explain why! Otherwise, leave it out. No past, no history, no motive to his desperate need for pain. Just a weirdo, which makes him unlikable if we can't connect to his weirdness or make sense of it somehow. And his poor wife.
Ok, it's 3am and I need to sleep. My husband is begging me to get off the computer. If you have 8 hours of your life that you don't mind wasting, The Sinner is not a great way to spend that time. If you want to watch something good on Netflix that's thrilling, watch Mindhunter or Stranger Things. If you want to rot your brain, watch 90210 or pound your head against the wall repeatedly for 45 minutes. Still better than The Sinner.