- HBO
- Justin Theroux is an embattled police chief in a town full of embattled people.
A mass tragedy can bring people together, and it can just as easily tear people apart.
The show then jumps ahead to three years after the disappearances, which, to my recollection, is where the book began; I suppose that in adapting it to a visual medium like TV, the temptation to offer a glimpse at the actual tragedy in question was too great to just move into its somewhat distant aftermath. I don’t begrudge the writers that, but it also says a lot about the tone of the storytelling, which borders on soap operatic.
