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Okay, i have mixed feelings with the show right now. i knew the lawyer was going to be a bomb for the show since i first saw her but i still do not buy this is going to be an easy answer. i feel like the two last episodes are going to have to be fully charged to compensate the slow path the show has chosen for the first FOUR episodes. my suspects are on sutherland's character but as i said before, i don't think this is as easy as a "he did it. jail. lets all go home". david e kelley has managed to make unexpected plot twists that change the whole thing into another one. im hoping it takes the path that Sharp Objects took at the end and drop a big ending cliffhanger. or at least to be as round and fair as Little Fires Everywhere's ending was. the performances are still great. donald sutherland has entered the room and he's hungry for some emmy nominations. hugh grant really does well too, specially at the tv scene. and i'm hoping they consider lily rabe for an emmy nomination even though this is not her best work at all. also, noah jupe does really good and the other kid who plays the victim's son miguel. also a point for the cinematography and directing that managed to take more risky shots and scenarios (like the snow scene). now, about nicole kidman. i know she's a great actress and her performance is much more believable than if any other actress would have played this character. but in a kidman-range parameter, i would say this is (so far) a poor character for her to portray and subsequentially, not her best performance at all. i feel like david e. kelly loved her work in big little lies and gave her a very similar character with a different hairstyle and a way less interesting storyline. she can do better but most importantly, she can be offered better. i would've loved if the roles were inverted and kidman played rabe's character and viceversa. to sum up, a great episode but i want to see way more than that in the last few episodes remaining. i want more action. more david e kelley. more nicole kidman.

In 1995 Hugh Grant, after being arrested for lewd conduct with Divine Brown, appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The host famously asked, "What the hell were you thinking?"

In See No Evil, Jonathan (Hugh Grant) is persuaded by his attorney to participate in a TV interview, where in fact he proclaims his innocence. There was no temptation for the interviewer to do a Leno, but still.

Hugh Grant as Jonathan steals this episode with his English charm, and we learn that he also had an affair in addition to that with Elena. Seeing Jonathan cradling his infant daughter by Elena could be one to make the heart melt, but still make you wonder whodunit?

A little slower than the last one, but after a bad pilot this show is starting to round into form.

We saw a different side of Franklin here. Red herring? Perhaps, but at least they have us invested in the mystery.

This was the episode which began my eye rolling.

First, the good. Donald Sutherland is so amazing in this episode. Noma Dumezweni is also incredible. Her role as the defense attorney saves many a scene. I'll give Grant some praise for the first part, especially with his scenes with Sutherland, but it's in the second half where the plot literally and figuratively get lost.

Which brings me to the bad. When Henry goes to the house of the murder victim, I literally exclaimed aloud: "Oh, COME ON!!!". That ENTIRE sequence was some of the worst writing I've seen, in a long time. I mean, it aggravated me so much, I decided to write this review, lol

I have personally never been a fan of Kidman, so I'm not going to over criticize an actor who I expect nothing from. That said, I just don't find her performance to be believable. To be fair, the writing/direction for this character is all over the place. In the first episode, she comes across as highly intelligent and aware. And it's her strongest performance.

But in every subsequent episode, her character shows none of that, and instead she's portrayed as either naive beyond belief, on the verge of a breakdown, or falling for Henry's psychopathic behaviour. It's a bizarre choice.

It's a shame Sutherland's strong performance was overshadowed by such lazy writing.