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So they cook dinner and talk in a hushed tone that you need to have your TV at volume 4000. Then they talk some more. Then there's some talking. Then Lois makes tea. Then there's a dark screen for a few minutes. Then a useless kid enters the house, or wherever they are. Then some more boring nearly-silent stuff happens. Then no action. Then there's a lack of action. Then, after the non-action, there's more non-action. Now you're two hours in. Then there's a police car and shaky camera work. Then useless junk. By this point I'm rooting for the Legion of Doom to assassinate Lois and this annoying kid.

I'm sure there was a good story to tell in here but they completely missed it. Maybe some current and future producers will read this and see some of the mistakes that were made in this series.

1. TELL A LINEAR STORY! Don't flash forward, flash back, flash sideways, mix-up footage from 2001 with footage from 2021. It's just a cobble job. Just tell the story in the order that it happened and stop trying to go heavy on the artistic/cinematic story-telling aspect. If it's a good story, then you don't need all that other garbage and non-linear timeline.

2. THIS PROVES THE ONCE-PER-WEEK SERIES IS DEAD. With the cobble job story telling, I forgot everything that happened the week before and didn't even tune-in for the final two episodes, I just waited until they were broadcast then streamed them online. And when it's non-linear story telling, that's the way it must be viewed. You'll forget stuff that happened but then see some stuff repeated in a future episode in order to make it long enough to justify another episode. It's just not good.

3. DON'T NEED DAILY CHORES TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING TODAY. Don't spend time watching one of the victim's sisters do dishes, or talk about her counseling sessions or whatever. It's not pertinent to the story. If there isn't enough there for four episodes, then either do more digging or making it fewer episodes. The families went through a tragedy but whether they go out and rake leaves is inconsequential to me.

4. ANOTHER REASON TO TELL THE STORY IN A LINEAR MANNER. A suspect could have a full afro and beard then two minutes later have a bald head and shaved face then two minutes later he's back in the police station being interviewed with a buzzcut and goatee. Makes it difficult to keep track of when this is happening.

Let's get this clear - this story has no hero, only lowlifes who were exposed by other lowlifes.

Blake (the student) - A spoiled dolt who once he got money, became a Hollywood wannabe who lived on selfies with expensive booze or with semi-celebrities who likely didn't know who he was.

The parents - Moneygrubbers who evidently have no career or source of income other than lawsuits. The dad evidently wants to be like the cool hippy even though he's extremely litigious and the moonpie-faced wife is so fame- and money-hungry that she's intolerable. She took EVERY opportunity to get on TV trying to look her "sexiest" as if she's a single 25-year-old hottie. NOPE. She's a worn-out hag who thinks she's hot.

The sister - She wanted to be district attorney in Philadelphia but that ended up being too difficult so now she writes fiction. How interesting and coincidental. Oh and she dressed just like the mom on the TV interviews which she really didn't need to be in. But she totally wasn't looking for fame and her attention like her parents were, right?

The vice principal - the typical moron principal who HAS to act tough, overbearing and try to scare people. She even spoke to the media in a manner that is EXACTLY how these dope principals talk to 9th graders who they want to scare and rule over. She's a hag and a hack. Another nerd who had her lunch money stolen when she was in school and is now on a revenge trip.

School district - evidently doesn't care they may have a perv working on their IT and digital devices. A bunch of photos were suspiciously "deleted" and there's no way to know if this/these perv(s) had explicit photos of these kids and saved them to a personal device then deleted them from any school server.

School administration took the opportunity to be overbearing and scary; the IT people took the opportunity to look at young kids without knowing it; the parents took the opportunity to get more money and some pebble of fame/notoriety; the student/son took the opportunity to become a Hollywood-wannabe lowlife and the daughter took the opportunity to try getting a springboard to a legal professional but fell short.