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I liked it. It started out a little slow, but picked up a lot faster than Rubicon did (did Rubicon ever really "pick up"?).

I thought it felt a lot like Twin Peaks if it had been done by a normal person and not David Lynch.

The Pacific Northwest region is perfectly suited to a murder mystery, although, I was taken out of it briefly because the Councilman's office is in the Vancouver Convention Centre (I've never been there, but they showed it enough during the Olympics).


Solid acting, although, the female cop was a little wooden. I wasn't sure if that was the actress or her character.

The parents of the murdered girl were pretty much the only actors I recognized from other shows, and I think this is the first thing since Deadwood I've seen the father in where he wasn't playing a cop (and even there, he was running for Sheriff), and I don't think I've ever seen Michelle Forbes play a character who wasn't a totally in control bad-ass. This should be a good role for her.




No spoilers because this is based on nothing at all...

Here's my completely off-the-wall guess right now for what happened: She was running away from the person who raped her and climbed into the trunk of the car to hide, then someone from the councilman's campaign was trying to cover up something completely unrelated by disposing of the car in the lake. Wrong place-wrong time for the girl, but still two crimes for the cops to piece together: The rape and whatever shady stuff the councilman's campaign people were up to.