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I found the timejump in the latest episode...disturbing.

posted 7 years ago by Sandoz (2021)
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I thought it was great episode...until suddenly the story jumped from Christmas to the middle of March. That seemed so arbitrary, and I kept trying to come up with a good reason for it and I couldn't. Everything that happened after the escape in the woods could have happened just as easily if the story only moved a week or so into the future, hell, even just a couple of days. If this much time has passed and none of the other cops except Nora and her sidekick believe that there's more to this case, that is, they haven't done any further digging and uncovered by now the criminals behind the scenes, it shifts the tone of the show from quirkiness into farce. Why did the show attempt to build up Nora's character as the only clear-thinking cop around if she's so clueless she can't turn something relevant up in 10 weeks and it's going to take the confession of Emmit to break the case open?

[–] SuperCuteButt (31) 7 years ago

We needed a bunch of time to pass to show how long Sy's coma (and beard) had progressed.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

Exactly!

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[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 7 years ago

With all those dead bodies, the bus crash, the hunters, a beheaded corpse and an ear, I don't see how the asshole sheriff can still deny there is something big going on!
that's the part that does not make sense after 3 months wouldn't they have the FBI or something there?

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

Yeah, that's my issue, too. There's been too much foul play going on in this one small town now that at least someone else would come to the same conclusion as Nora. And if anyone else did indeed "follow the money" as Nikki suggested before she disappeared, the shenanigans with the mobsters using Emmet's company for money laundering would have been discovered.

And what about the case files the Russian stole from the PD, and threatened the deputy? Either of those would raise big red flags, too.

[–] arggh (9) 7 years ago

my biggest issue, is that Nikki and wrench are fugitives from the law. they escaped a prison bus going to jail. I wouldn't think they would want to be seen in public. I would think they would have been found and arrested over the time jump