In this version
- Rusty has two teenage kids in this version instead of one young son.
- Carolyn has a son this time
- Carolyn was pregnant, but in the original she had a tubal ligation.
- this version is suggesting Rusty’s son as a suspect.
- in the original, it is revealed that Carolyn was having an affair not only with Rusty but his colleague with the district attorney.
It sounds like you have maybe changed your mind that this might be a time waste should the ending mirror the Harrison Ford movie. So far, I like how the TV show has had the time to flesh out the personalities of the prosecutors as much as the accused and his defense team. There are many swirling and competing motivations on both sides that make it impossible, so far, to know which narrator to trust
shareI’m watching because tv is slim pickins right now but I don’t have a lot of respect for remakes in general. The actors are good so it has that going for it. I will be disappointed if the story ends the same way. I am hoping these new elements are not just red herrings.
shareBecause they need to stretch the story over 8 hours! Red herring is a staple of the genre.
shareThey also have Raymond defending Rusty instead of Sandy Stern (though they did mention "Sandy Stern's" when it came to their law associate). I expect they'll have a subplot with the judge. Right now they're portraying Raymond as a white knight who will not play dirty like Raul Julia's defense lawyer. Maybe it's to set up a surprise.
I like that they're implicating the son. Based on how soon it came out, I'd guess at this point that he's almost certainly not the killer. Given the source material, I'm going to assume that the killer will have to be diabolical, so it could be the sister (who erupted upon learning the affair, but maybe she's acting). Naturally, it could also be the wife. In any event, it's a relief that they're going to try to keep us guessing.
I specifically got Apple TV for my mother and I thought it would give us something to do when I visited her. I know she loved the movie. Well, she hated the show and bitterly complained that it was way too slow, so now I'm in it alone.
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spoiler. good call on the killer
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After episode seven, I ended up locking in the wife as the killer, so I was wrong. The show never provided a lot of evidence, much less that Rusty fabricated the crime scene to misdirect the investigation (I think there was a line somewhere about how the homicide seemed improvised while the binding was meticulous, but that was as much as we got). Rather than evidence, I suppose the solution suggests itself by Ebert's Law of Economy of Characters.
And then there is Greta Scacchi. How can you replace her.
As well as: Raul Julia. Paul Winfield. John Spencer. Brian Dennehy. And Harrison.
A little disappointed that this version only slightly varied from the original ending. I thought the murder scene seemed a little too impulsive. Plus the cover up was hard to buy after Rusty seemed so convinced of his own innocence all along. Overall, it was good. Top notch acting. Maintained a brooding atmosphere which made it stylistically interesting too.
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