Ignore these negative reviews. It is as if they are unaware of Soderberg's previous work, his style, his penchant for risk taking.This is great. Settle in, pour yourself a glass, turn off your phone and take your time watching this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great stuff indeed.

I watched the first two episodes. Editing was a bit choppy but they held my attention. There were some gaps in continuity but I thought that was just artistic license being put in play; I thought it was a technique used to keep the audience guessing. After tending to business for days, I watched the last episode. When I went to my "On Demand" list to catch up, I noticed there was not episode 3 or 4 so I repeated watching the four available episodes. I could see right away that there was a big hole in the plot that I missed. What happened to episodes 3 & 4?

From the beginning, it seemed intriguing. I loved how series started exploring life of Olivia before her death, I loved that we found out a lot of things about her life. However, it was too slow and there might have been many unnecessary moments. As the story progresses after Olivia's death, show becomes better. I liked Petra dynamics. However, most suspects were offscreen, they were mentioned but not shown. Not sure how to feel about that. It became a lot better than the beginning at the end but somehow the writers managed to mess improvement up. The ending was unrealistic. First, Joel's confession. Sure, he had some problems in past but his memories came OUT OF NOWHERE. Even if he didn't remember what he was doing/where he was at the time Olivia was murdered, it made 0 sense. And the second thing that didn't make sense. Petra. She was honestly my favorite character. She was fighting to prove her brother's innocence so hard, and all of sudden she's OK with Joel going to jail after his confession even though she knows he is innocent. It just doesn't make sense. Suddenly she doesn't care anymore. I understand Joel is no one for her but I don't buy that after all that, she couldn't care less. Alan suddenly became very supportive of Petra. That didn't make much sense either. There were many unnecessary moments that just confused me as a viewer. We never saw what happened to Joel, or even Eric (I think he should have appeared in the finale, even for a minute maybe), also that lead detective. I disliked last scene because it was out of context. Did Petra get inspired with Olivia's work all of sudden? Taking consideration things mentioned above, it was an average show, boring at times. Peaked in 3-5 episodes but as I said above, finale completely destroyed improvement after first two episodes. The worst thing for me is the UNREALISTIC ending, which made me regret watching the show.

I was anticipating the release of this series and was so disappointed that I did not bother to watch episode 3. The first episode is strange and bland. I believe the issue to be with the dialogue. It tries too hard to be witty, hip, campy and it falls totally flat. Sharon Stone overacts and cannot get out of ingenue mode yet we are looking at a middle-aged woman with a Joker smile oozing coyness and trying to seduce a younger man. It was weirdly repulsive and boring at the same time. The second issue was the scenes were very choppy---jumping from one to another without giving the viewer any information or sense of a plot. So we just watch Sharon Stone complain that she lost her ass and then writhe in bed over someone correctly analyzing that she is a lonely, menopausal woman. Her gay friend 's dialogue is an offense to all LGBTQ people. The one star is for the French bulldog pet and Sharon Stone's costumes.