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But the plotline becomes so movie of the week as to undo everything before it. A divergence to visit his estranged sister hints at the man desperate to not have his crimes immediately destroy his relationships.
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His cold, affectless manner has been done by other onscreen serial killers, but there’s a bizarre warmth to him. Linklater, to his credit, is incredibly unsettling. On top of that, Mary starts to associate with a man named John Tyler (Hamish Linklater), a rapist who claims to have suppressed his urges and wishes to atone for his crimes in order to find out where Karen is living. In her mad drive to get at the truth Mary does terrible things they feel so grandiose as to be unrelatable.
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Though considering how the series utilizes Black characters - as either victims for white characters to avenge or as set dressing to avoid questions of how a Southern town is all-white - this isn’t given much additional nuance.īrenneman certainly gets a meaty role, but it too often devolves into scheming and Machiavellian manipulation. There’s also the added element of how white victims and their mothers are valued higher over victims of color.
Mary becomes upset when another mother, whose daughter is dead and is thus an “official” victim, is asked to do an interview over her. Mary and her son, Jake (Elliot Fletcher) run a charity foundation in daughter Theresa’s name, and part of Mary’s desire to keep her daughter alive is paralleled by media attention. 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.
Warner executive produces alongside Papandrea, Made Up Stories’ Casey Haver and director John Polson.‘Downtown Owl’ Review: Lily Rabe Turns Anti-Hero in Puzzling Chuck Klosterman Adaptation Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Turner’s Studio T produced the series. The cast also includes Stella Baker, Elliot Fletcher, Xavier Samuel, Chiara Aurelia, Ashley Madekwe and Bryant Tardy. Murciano plays Peter, a therapist with seemingly good intentions. Tell Me Your Secrets centers on three characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: Emma (Rabe), who once looked into the eyes of a killer John (Linklater), a former serial predator looking for redemption and Mary (Brenneman), a woman obsessed with finding her missing daughter. In June, TNT, TBS and TruTV general manager Brett Weitz confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Tell Me Your Secrets was dead at TNT, saying that it just “wasn’t right” for the network. The entire series was then filmed and sat on the shelf for a couple of years. The WarnerMedia cable network gave the show a series order in February 2018, with production taking place later that year.
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