![]() Before the character becomes a rampaging angel of death, Brenneman does try to ground the character in a reality we haven’t necessarily seen before she is a mother who staunchly refuses to grieve or entertain the notion her daughter is dead, and the distinction the script makes is how lucrative the “mother on a mission” narrative is to the participants. Mary is the first character we meet, grilling Karen about “her man” taking her child. “Tell Me Your Secrets” Courtesy of Amazon StudiosĪn additional concept that works on paper but doesn’t necessarily bear fruit in the finished storyline is that of Mary Barlow and her quest for justice for her daughter. Is Karen being honest when she claims she doesn’t know about the murders? Is she lying? Is there a natural tendency to disbelieve women whose lovers are bad? Considering the spate of accusations against male abusers in Hollywood, and the media’s tendency to grill their former girlfriends and wives, this holds promise as a storyline. ![]() Karen is a puzzle and the series posits the question of whether we prosecute women whose boyfriends do bad things too harshly. Rabe, who’s made star-making turns before - in the works of Ryan Murphy, for example - continues to prove why she’s so magnetic and engaging. That being said, Lily Rabe as Karen/Emma is fantastic. It’s unclear why TNT decided to forego airing the series, or if they even saw any of the footage - but this definitely feels like a show that has been sitting somewhere for three years. The series sat until 2020 when Amazon picked it up for release in 2021. ![]() The show filmed in 2018 only to have TNT back out of the deal. “Tell Me Your Secrets” has an interesting history it was originally sold to TNT back in 2017 in the hopes of revitalizing that network’s lineup. But when a young girl named Jess (Emyri Crutchfield) whom Emma befriends disappears Karen/Emma starts to reluctantly embroil herself in a new mystery that unravels the secrets of her past. When Karen is offered an opportunity to start over as part of the Witness Protection Program, she takes it, is given a new name, Emma Hall, and settles into the Southern town of St. The show tends to lag and gets particularly confusing when it turns to the teen stories about a group home and a wealthy, troubled girl.‘Downtown Owl’ Review: Lily Rabe Turns Anti-Hero in Puzzling Chuck Klosterman Adaptation Parents who resist the urge to shower off are likely to find that Amy Brenneman's Mary character starts off fascinating and possibly relatable: If your college-age daughter was last seen near a serial killer seven years ago, how far would you go to find her? The little details that reveal Hamish Linklater's character, paroled rapist John, are both creepy and heartbreaking (he has hundreds of motivational Post-It notes precisely placed around his tiny studio apartment). Sure you want to hear their secrets? Many mildly interested viewers will bail on Tell Me Your Secrets in the first 30 minutes, after that prison scene, the bloody suicide of the serial killer boyfriend, and our introduction to Karen's (now Emma, in witness protection) Louisiana bayou milieu where you can almost smell the sweat and musty dampness. ![]() This thriller lets you know it will be a dark slog from the start, when bloodied prisoner Karen meets desperate mom Mary, who only wants to know if Karen's boyfriend killed her daughter. ![]()
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