New mini-series on Netflix, a mystery with secrets and twists.
Two estranged spouses — one a detective, the other a news reporter — vie to solve a murder in which each believes the other is a prime suspect.
Although the His & Hers series is set in Georgia, it is based on an eponymous book by Alice Feeney about a murder in a small British village. The book’s plot entangles two people who used to be a couple, a BBC news anchor and a detective. They both become suspects as they investigate the case, uncovering secrets and lies from their shared history.
I’m not going to watch the rest of the series for two reasons:
1. I know how the book comes out. (And I disliked it. One way to surprise readers of a mystery is to present a solution that could not possibly be true. The motive is plausible, but the details of the murder are not. So, yeah, I was surprised. And disappointed.)
2. The narrative technique is, in my opinion, too faithful to the book. The book alternates between the p.o.v. of the detective, the newswoman, and a player to be named later. That is a very effective literary technique because a reader is always aware that he is not reading an omniscient, objective point of view. When adapted too literally to film, switching constantly from her story to his and back, this technique becomes both annoying and confusing.
It’s a pulpy, juicy story, so you may enjoy it as a guilty pleasure watch. The premise is promising and the characters are interesting, but don’t say I didn’t warn you about the ending, which seems to emerge from left field, and frankly doesn’t seem possible. (I’m assuming the series ends as the book did. Since I stopped watching, that may or may not be the case.)
Tessa Thompson also did a clothed sex scene.
“the finale stays true to the book’s major outcome and twist” courtesy of AI
For a sec I thought that said Ashley Tisdale, who I wouldn’t mind seeing in a role like this, any relation? And any relation to Jennifer Kelly Tisdale, who had some decent sex vids go viral ages ago?