Review of Fool Me Once

Fool Me Once (2024)
5/10
Started out interesting... but
7 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I felt like the beginning started out decently and there were some good twists in first couple of episodes but then there were plot holes big enough to drive a truck through by the end... One massive plot hole is the nanny cam frame... How did the Burkett's even know it existed to "deep fake" it?? Maya's friend gave her the frame, so they would have had no knowledge of it's true purpose unless the nanny happened to take out the SD card and check it (which they never showed her doing, nor do I remember her explaining that she did) Just doesn't make sense... And the daughter was 4 but would she not have remembered the Nanny's husband showing up and talking to her in her dad's clothes??

Shane's character's behavior also makes zero sense. It's hinted at that he's secretly in love with her at the beginning, but then he gets all stalkerish in the middle (mainly it seems only to further the points of implying it might be Joe stalking her. A point they lean into when the little girl runs over to the bushes and says "Daddy" which is never explained... as well as Shane conveniently showing up in the garage which he otherwise would have had no knowledge of) Then he just turns into a convenient delivery guy to drop off the nanny and husband or whatever he was off. He then disappears until the last scene where he pops up 18 years later as the devoted (and apparently ageless friend) And then there's all the subplots that go nowhere..

Maya's friend who gives her the frame and is supposedly her good friend is missing from the final scene and her subplot about her ex husband just disappears..

And the half-sibling plot seems no purpose other than to make Claire seem more secretive and give her kids something to do... and why introduce the half siblings father and not actually show them meeting?

And the whole younger detective relationship they build ends so abruptly with zero resolution as well...

And that's just a fraction of the issues....
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