Has quite a beginning, in which mom Toni Collette protects her daughter Bella Heathcote from a killer in a restaurant, and it turns out she isn't what she seems at all (in fact is some kind of super-agent). The daughter goes on the run, but is being followed and can't trust anyone - I was getting echoes here of Odd Man Out, a film which I haven't even seen, and the car buying episode is straight out of Psycho. And why do I keep thinking The Manchurian Candidate?
The transitions from past to present are very creatively done - Minke Spiro also directed an episode of Fosse / Verdun. Based on a novel by Karin Slaughter. It's consistently intriguing and interesting, right to the twist end. But it's slightly lacking in heart. Could have done with more stuff with the housekeeper, for example.
Omari Harwick, David Wenham, Jessica Barden (the young Toni), Jacob Scipio (cop), Joe Dempsie (from Southcliffe; didn't recognise him), Terry O'Quinn. The little girl's good too.
Photographed by Ole Bratt Birkeland (Judy, The Crown, The Missing), edited by Michael Riscio, Mako Kamitsuna (and Adoma Ananeh-Firempong). For Netflix.
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