Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

raulga-825-676700 I really want to know what happened. It was going so well... in season 3 so many storylines and characters are simply abandoned! And it seems like the writers knew they were messing up, so they try to fix it, but messes up even more, and try to fix it again and it ends up a total mess. Really sad.

asis-00207 We really enjoyed the first 2 seasons, but the 3rd was a disappointment in a way of the storyline, acting and the ending.

dead man walking (burtmichael) Everything you could ever want for a binge-worthy series is included in this show. The acting is phenomenal as you might expect from the likes of Sam Shephard and Sissy Spacek, but the rest of the cast is on the same par. Hand in hand with great acting is the great writing, creating complex, compelling, multidimensional characters and the relationships between them, people who get inside your head and heart and make you care what happens to them. Like most people, I identified with some characters better than others, but because the story was so well-written, I never felt compelled to take sides. I wanted all of them to win and come out of this thing in good shape, even though I knew that, as in real life, this was not going to be possible. Watch and enjoy!

Alice C The entire premise of this show is based on a tragedy that happened over 30 years ago. The oldest child was beaten by his father after his sister drown under his care. Seriously, this is the big earth shattering secret and Danny 30 years later still holds his siblings responsible for lying to a police officer about how his injuries happened. A detective, for no good reason, gives Danny some audiotapes of the other kids lying under police questioning and he listens to those throughout the first 13 episodes as he seethes with anger and decides to mess with his siblings, having one beaten severely, threatening to spill secrets to ruin another's impending marriage and just generally being a complete scary, menacing and conniving jerk that puts his entire family at risk by running drugs through their hotel. They blow the end result the first episode in flashes of what is to come (a dead Danny being dragged through foliage), the viewer just has to watch and wait to fill in the details of how. The second season is a lot of trying to cover the crime ending up with yet another crime (hardly original). You can usually see the twists and turns coming a mile away. I enjoyed watching John Leguizamo and Jamie McShane. The rest of the acting was so-so. I honestly couldn't stand watching the always tearful and whiny Sissy Spacek or the incredibly annoying guy that played Kevin. Season 3 was a complete disaster. The last 2 episodes took the series from a 5 to a 2. I hated the dream type sequences of you don't know what is real. They should have ended it in 8 episodes and spared us that mess. Somehow I doubt the Rayburns were ever going to be a happy family and even if the 'tragedy' didn't occur, Danny was going to be the same diabolical loser. He was just a guy that never took responsibility for himself. And the other kids were given far less monetary support but for Danny it was never enough. Trying to make a sob story about a grown man having his father make him decide between getting financial support for his son or his restaurant, only being able to choose one wasn't generating sympathy. In the end it turns out the Inn isn't worth anything anyway, global warming or some such BS is going to mean it is under water so they should have just let Danny get caught with the drugs, he'd be in jail and they'd all be free of their demons. Too bad it wasn't a much better story, too well cast for this garbage.