Some way through long-winded update of He Said, She Said, extremely well acted by Dominic West and Ruth Wilson. Though the differences between their versions of events seem a little false and distracting. As it's all in flashback we don't really know what's going on. Seem to only manage two episodes at a time, which is telling.
Montauk is a tourist destination on the tip of Long Island, not the location of Jaws (that was Martha's Vineyard).
The whole thing seems to have been shot on Steadicam (somewhat unnecessarily) and the night scenes are ridiculously overlit.
[On reaching the 'end']: After some eight hours it is rather unfair on the audience to leave them on an inconclusive cliffhanger. Also, as you can't necessarily trust either's point of view, it leaves us in something of a quandary. I don't think the creators really thought about the audience enough.
If you excised the (unerotic) sex scenes you'd have an 8-episode series rather than 10.
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