- The things that work, work really well. The stuff that falls flat… really falls flat. Curious mixture.
- Taye Diggs is the best thing in the show. But his character (and particularly the character’s elaborate time-consuming backstory) is the major weak link. The scene where his sister-in-law stripped naked before him was… weird.
- The action scenes were good.
- Any/All of the scenes from the lawyer’s POV were good. James Cromwell, Richard Schiff and Tom Felton are good. Those scenes really pulled me in, made me invest in the story arc.
- Some of the scenes with the main two detectives felt like they were from a cop show from a different era. Very 90s sometimes. And not in a good way.
- Likewise, it felt like a lot of new ‘regular’ characters were introduced in this installment. And it was clumsy and off-putting. And like the scenes devoted to English’s recent bereavement, it only served to slow the pace of the story arc. And the story arc is all we care about.
- I keep comparing the show to Bosch. And it’s definitely no Bosch.
- Jamie McShane is a real standout. He steals his scenes. Stood out in the first episode also, but really knocked it out of the ballpark in this episode.
- The scene at the end (the “date” between Mulligan and Blunt was smart. More than anything else, that one scene made me want to keep watching.
Murder In The First 1.2
