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There are shows that hook him from the first thirty seconds, and others that are so repellent from the beginning that he needs to take refuge in a dark sensory room. Netflix Whodunnit The residenceFor example, slot in the old division, and any person who spent an childhood studying the pages torn from Bow The comics would be the first to tell you that Riverdale takes the glory of the crown in the latter. Disney+ Thriller The stolen girlHowever, it does not occupy any support.
On the other hand, this thriller full of is not felt for the turns there (an image a screw made of playdough molded by a three -year -old boy) falls into that other category of overlooked television over high but appreciated: background noise. If you are looking for something to take a nap on the couch but it lacks energy to go to bed as a sensible person, congratulations. The stolen girl It is the answer to the prayers of a tired insomnia.
State there, done that
Which contains a little less charm than static radio, this completely forgettable thriller, adapted from the novel Game Date By Alex Dahl, it is announced as the worst nightmare of all parents. Covering five episodes, The stolen girl Giradores around a girl who is, well, stolen. Denise Gough (Anora) Strata like Elisa, our irresponsible mother designated, although she will not like you to call her like that.
Elisa is careless enough to allow her nine -year -old daughter, Lucia, attending a pajamas party after becoming a friend of a suspiciously friendly white blonde woman named Rebecca (Holliday Grainger of Strike). The charming Rebecca also has a daughter of the same age that looked, and one thing leads to another, with Elisa according to letting her daughter spend the night in Rebecca, a movement that will undoubtedly regret the rest of the show.
For any mothers who are distrustful of women too spoken at school doors, The stolen girl It is an excellent example of why they should not be trusted. Unfortunately for Elisa, Rebecca has its own agenda that, at this stage, has refused to share with the audience. For now, all we know is that he has put a tortuous plan in motion to take Lucia away from her family for better known reasons. She downloads most of the heavy work to a doubtful builder, who, fortunately, by a police force without inspiration, ends up being incompetent enough to be filmed in a key location in CCTV.
If Rebecca does this only for kicks or because he has taken a particular disgust of Elisa is something that will be clear later, but do not worry if he yields to that insomnia and loses most of the explanation. In addition, he does not be alarmed, when he woke up, to know what Rebecca is now called Nina, she has passed a brunette and speaks French fluently. Yes, she is leading a double life.
Yes, she knows one or two things about kidnapping. No, she doesn’t always choose the best henchmen. Yes, she knows how to get rid of these problematic henchmen. Yes, she has her reasons. No, his coping method is not really what a trained therapist would recommend. Yes, Elisa deserves that everything goes on her way. In summary, there is nothing here that has not yet done tens of times in any Harlan Coben thriller (in book format or screen) about a murky past that is updated with you.
Any redemptive quality?
In terms of plot, the short answer is: no. Like the standard practice in this special fictional brand that involves criminals who escape with children, there is not a single police officer with any imagination or initiative. Of course, Thrillers fans and criminal fiction already know that waiting for great brains from a police force is like making a dove fly out of an open window and expect blind obedience when you tell him it disappears. In other words, you would have better luck turning lead into gold. In the first episode of SherlockFor example, the titular character of Benedict Cumberbatch absolutely accuses a particular detective of lowering the intellectual coefficient of the entire street.
While the police force in The stolen girl It may not be as blatant as the policeman who so annoying Sherlock, are still slow (or at least demotivated) enough to be mocked by the young Selma, a journalist who is brown, feminine and homosexual, marking three boxes of diversity in one time.
The will to live is being in the grimace by having to cover news about wandering pigs. However, more opaque than plate water work has not decreased the spark of this journalist, and his antenna begins to fly after spying Elisa’s repeated calls on Instagram to help find her daughter. Selma decides, based on the lack of presence of Elisa’s social networks until a few years before, that something is “off” about it. The lesson that must be learned here is that if you never bothered to create an Instagram account because you do not see the point, you can also be at the mercy of a boring journalist after writing content related to the pig.
And so, Selma begins his research, carrying out a simple inverse image of Google to identify a key evidence, which is not something that happens to anyone in the research team. Is it successful? Is Elisa gather with Lucia? Rebecca/Nina gets your venepanza? Is Selma ever promoted?
Of course, take the step and find out for yourself, but do not fall in love with IMDB reviewers in ecstasy about the “turns and turns” and “fundamental role of a journalist” or a “layer in layers.” There is no soundtrack that stays in your head, or any character whose decisions make sense. The actors do their best with the material they have given it. You have no hope of finding out any of the turns for you, so at least the burden of trying to unravel the plot on your own.
For the shallow brigade, there is a small ray of hope here, and that is Jim Sturges, who plays Fred, Lucia’s father and the husband of Elisa’s criminal lawyer. If it is plagued by repeated thought that the painfully confused FRED looks like a main singer of Boyband much more than a member of the legal profession, it is not entirely wrong.
The other claim of Sturges’s fame is playing Jude in Throughout the universe (2007), from where he spent much of his Serenata screen time to his love of choice with Beatles songs and a cock of an eyebrow. Sturges seems to have aged just a week since his Jude days, and if we can have our hands in any anti -aging potion in which he is, not everything is lost.
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