An all-star cast also including Sam Neill, Jake Lacy and Alison Brie are featured in this adaptation of a thriller by Liane Moriarty ('Big Little Lies').
is practically brimming over with secrets. The biggest one, sitting right in the center, is the question of what really happened to Joy Delaney , a recently retired tennis coach whose disappearance sends her family into a tailspin. The search for that truth uncovers deeper ones still, in the process unearthing hatchets that had seemed buried and reopening wounds that had appeared healed.
Yet once all the dirt has been dug up, it’s difficult not to feel a twinge of disappointment at how shallow this world still seems.has plenty to recommend it, including some fine performances and a shrewd grasp of the Delaney clan’s complicated dynamics. But in the absence of a strong perspective or a compelling backdrop, Melanie Marnich’s adaptation of the novel by Liane Moriarty , the grifter who’d recently ingratiated herself with their parents before abruptly exiting their lives.
Its most poignant insight, however, is that any shared history can contain several contradictory truths at once. Logan might remember their upbringing as a happy one while Troy recalls it as dominated by Stan’s anger, and both brothers might be right.
Still, despite its shortcomings as a mystery or a character study, the drama succeeds as a reminder to show our families some grace. Shortly before Joy’s disappearance, she approaches Stan with what he presumes will be an apology for a brutal argument they had recently. But she has other ideas. “I don’t want you to forgive me,” she explains. “I want you to understand me.” Perhaps, the series suggests, some wrongs can never be made right.
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