User Reviews

I loved season 1 of The Sinner with Jessica Biel. I was hooked, it was exciting, you needed to see what would happen next. It was well acted and the story was brilliant.

Season 2 was not the same. I got halfway through and had to give up.

This season is even worse! I'm on the 4th episode and nothing has happened. Nothing at all. I don't mind a slow burner but something has to happen eventually! It's just really, really boring. Such a waste of talent and you honestly just want the main character to throw himself off a building by now just so that A) something will happen and B) this rubbish will end

I think the first season was just a one hit wonder sadly and it's been dramatically downhill since then

First of all, this series is slowwwww - and repetitious! It's not moving forward at all. It just keeps telling the same thing over and over again. I get it! Jamie had this weird and unnatural connection/fascination/relationship with Nick.

Secondly, this episode has "Detective Harry Sciatica" chasing Jamie all over NYC. going from hotel bar, to hotel room, to party, and down a deserted street in a high speed car chase. After all that chasing, he takes a crazed Jamie back home and tells him he's not leaving until he tells his wife Leela what going on.

Then what does Harry do? While he's parked out in front of Jamie's house he takes a pain killer - and proceeds to fall asleep! Fast forward to 7:18 a.m. the next morning, and Harry gets a phone call that there's been a murder back in NYC that he might want to check into - because it just might have a connection to Jamie.

So why the hell did Harry go chasing Jamie all over NYC only to fall asleep in front of his house? Did he think the guy was just gonna have a talk with his wife and go to bed? Didn't he think he just might slip out and go on the run again?

When a show "goes stupid" on me - like this one has - I just give up! At this point, I could care less what happens to any of them.

Oh, one last thing: They didn't show any scenes of Jamie with his newborn son this week, but would you leave someone who is exhibiting signs of some serious mental problem all alone with a tiny baby (like they did in last week's episode)? His wife and their "birthing buddy" just put the baby in Jamie's arms and leave the room. Now that's really, really stupid!!

This story gets off to a strong start and has mystery on many levels and interesting characters.

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At first it's "interesting" looking through the eyes of a madman, and the dialogue gives good insights regarding mental health, whether it's day-to-day stuff, or grief, or mental illness.

The existential dread starts to wear thin by ep 4...in fact, just skip that episode. It's all angst-y and philosophizing -- I actually LIKE that sort of thing but it goes ooooonnn and oooonnn and oooonnn, and does absolutely nothing to propel the story or further explain the main character's motives. We've already been given plenty of info about "who he is" in the previous eps, this one you can just toss. I give it 1 star but 7-8 for the seasons and episodes prior to this.

I haven't actually finished the whole season, I've been bingeing and ran out of time. However, I just finished ep 4 and it was so belaboured (in fact, I had to FF through most of it cuz it NOTHING was happening) and I just had to pop in here and advise not losing 50ish minutes of your life that you'll never get back.

I'm assuming that episode was an anomaly and the the rest will resume the calibre of the first few eps. I'll report back if it doesn't.

Enjoyed season 1 & 2.

Season 3 started off so-so. Episode 4 is horrible. Bad writing, bad storyline, not believable.

At times, just dumb/silly.

Hope this gets better...

Like other reviewers, I enjoyed the first season. The second was OK. This one sucks. Too bad, they hook you up, than they let you down. In this particular episode, the people behind the series make a weak attempt at remaking the french film noir atmosphere, with a hopeless dystopi of the rich, who just have no worries in the world (no profane ones that is). So some of them become the ultimate consumer, and then the chosen few have trouble adjusting. And all of that is OK, it should make us think, like money isn't everything and all. But the riches, this guy profits from isn't all materialistic. He's got people who care about him, including one old, cynical depressed detective. He's got a healthy baby, a good career, that he achieved with knowledge, not just money. The writer throws apples and oranges together and sells us a picture of plants. No good and simply disturbing, especially the car chase, where the protagonist drives UI and recklessly, puts multiple lives in danger, only to get taken home by this pathetic excuse of a remake of The Eye of the Beholder