The premise of an affair leading to murder is typically intriguing. However, this show left much to be desired. Instead of a gripping story about obsession developing from an intimate encounter we get an unevenly paced who-dun-it with the affair as a bland plot device.
Alex is too emotionally blank. They have a scene where she feigns an overdose to, I guess spend more time with Dan. I don't know because despite it being in the show, the principals don't talk about it. Lizzy's Alex tells Dan this information like she's wants to know his order for Doordash. Movie Alex by contrast looks like a person who's falling apart. Dan, while driving her to the ER tells her that she'll likely lose her job if she seeks treatment due to the 5150 hold that would follow. They go back to her apartment where Dan leaves very quickly. Dan doesn't believe Alex had Oded but there's no resolve as to why. What's her endgame? If she wanted to guilt him into staying her weak unemotional attempt would just irritate him.
Alex's efforts at manipulation are detailed where she starts a fire at the restaurant to lure Dan to her house for the 1st encounter. The problem is it wouldn't have worked as he's in work clothes and would have gone home foregoing putting a business suit in a dryer to shrink.
Other issues: The script spends no time developing Alex's personality disorder regarding the affair. Alex is inscrutable. She should be either psychopathic or delusional. Alex's behavior is out of character as she is seen pushing people away referring to their relationship as 'nothing' when they let her down. A stalker feigning love for, obsessing over, and then developing a deep hatred for the target is normal. However, in Alex's case her behavior is incongruent with either mentioned personality disorder. She doesn't resort to violence. Her extreme violence with Dan's family members comes out of nowhere. This issue just takes the viewer out of the story as it doesn't make sense.
Further plot issues: Dan is not believable in terms of his defense strategy of denying the affair. As a prosecutor he'd know better. Beth's best friend being the murderer is ridiculous. Ellen breaking in a professor's house makes no sense.
Alex is too emotionally blank. They have a scene where she feigns an overdose to, I guess spend more time with Dan. I don't know because despite it being in the show, the principals don't talk about it. Lizzy's Alex tells Dan this information like she's wants to know his order for Doordash. Movie Alex by contrast looks like a person who's falling apart. Dan, while driving her to the ER tells her that she'll likely lose her job if she seeks treatment due to the 5150 hold that would follow. They go back to her apartment where Dan leaves very quickly. Dan doesn't believe Alex had Oded but there's no resolve as to why. What's her endgame? If she wanted to guilt him into staying her weak unemotional attempt would just irritate him.
Alex's efforts at manipulation are detailed where she starts a fire at the restaurant to lure Dan to her house for the 1st encounter. The problem is it wouldn't have worked as he's in work clothes and would have gone home foregoing putting a business suit in a dryer to shrink.
Other issues: The script spends no time developing Alex's personality disorder regarding the affair. Alex is inscrutable. She should be either psychopathic or delusional. Alex's behavior is out of character as she is seen pushing people away referring to their relationship as 'nothing' when they let her down. A stalker feigning love for, obsessing over, and then developing a deep hatred for the target is normal. However, in Alex's case her behavior is incongruent with either mentioned personality disorder. She doesn't resort to violence. Her extreme violence with Dan's family members comes out of nowhere. This issue just takes the viewer out of the story as it doesn't make sense.
Further plot issues: Dan is not believable in terms of his defense strategy of denying the affair. As a prosecutor he'd know better. Beth's best friend being the murderer is ridiculous. Ellen breaking in a professor's house makes no sense.