Okay, they get tons of brownie points for being heavy like good acting, adult but sophisticated plots and themes, and some new age spirituality thrown in. You can fault the staff's earnestness.
The main character has just been let off death row after 19 years on a procedural issue. He had been there since he was 18. The show shows well his adjustment to the real world after 20 years in harsh solitary confinement on death row. He is a smarter version of Forrest Gump. Of course, his family and all the good people in small town Paulie GE.think he is innocent. But the way Daniel Holden bumbles around in his own little world, so above everything is annoying. He never actually proclaims his innocence. He tells his doting sister that he confessed because he felt SO GUILTY. Like of what? Of course the implication is that some bad guys his age group killed his old girl friend and set him up. Yet you can't blame the authorities for assuming he is guilty after he was found holding the murdered girl's hand after he covered her in wild flowers. He had all night to report her death.
But this is what bothered me the most, is that its is the usual Southern TV sort of cast. Lower class whites are mainly hostile & ignorant, blacks like the ones in prison are all swell guys. The women are sweet and doting and naturally can see Daniel's innocence. It was shot in Georgia and I noticed a few of the Walking Dead minor characters parading through; like Carol's brutish husband who was eaten by zombies in the 1st year in a classic morality death. The jealous step brother of Daniel, Teddy. He looks at Ted as a rival for the affections of his pretty gentle wife and a possible usurper of the family business that Daniel's dad ran before he died. Then there is Daniel's real younger brother Jared, who was born after he went to prison. Jared is an annoying sap.
The main character has just been let off death row after 19 years on a procedural issue. He had been there since he was 18. The show shows well his adjustment to the real world after 20 years in harsh solitary confinement on death row. He is a smarter version of Forrest Gump. Of course, his family and all the good people in small town Paulie GE.think he is innocent. But the way Daniel Holden bumbles around in his own little world, so above everything is annoying. He never actually proclaims his innocence. He tells his doting sister that he confessed because he felt SO GUILTY. Like of what? Of course the implication is that some bad guys his age group killed his old girl friend and set him up. Yet you can't blame the authorities for assuming he is guilty after he was found holding the murdered girl's hand after he covered her in wild flowers. He had all night to report her death.
But this is what bothered me the most, is that its is the usual Southern TV sort of cast. Lower class whites are mainly hostile & ignorant, blacks like the ones in prison are all swell guys. The women are sweet and doting and naturally can see Daniel's innocence. It was shot in Georgia and I noticed a few of the Walking Dead minor characters parading through; like Carol's brutish husband who was eaten by zombies in the 1st year in a classic morality death. The jealous step brother of Daniel, Teddy. He looks at Ted as a rival for the affections of his pretty gentle wife and a possible usurper of the family business that Daniel's dad ran before he died. Then there is Daniel's real younger brother Jared, who was born after he went to prison. Jared is an annoying sap.