Domestic violence in all its forms is kind of the subject ‘of the hour’ in my country due to a series of unbelievable court decisions regarding it and cases involving it. Maybe because of that, I had some sort of expectations about this show that weren’t totally fulfilled by what it’s really about. The way I saw it, the show wasn’t very entertaining as it was too slow, Debra was a tedious, monotonous character and John wasn’t very convincing as a villain. As I hadn’t heard of this particular case before, it was only by the end of the first episode that I knew it was based on real facts and people, but that just made the whole thing seem… even more shallow. After a couple of episodes, however, I realized that some of that vibe, of that feeling it was evoking, how fake it all seemed, might all be on purpose and this apparent ‘not-so-great’ ability of John for manipulation was actually a genius master scheme to show us what a truly manipulative person should look like and
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