For no reason at all, a young mothers goes haywire and murders a man on the street, and just when investigations are on there is a revelation of her dark past.
An amiable and largely engaging murder mystery, gorgeously lensed and smartly paced but more notable for its control of mood and atmosphere than substance or character.
[The early episodes are] sufficiently intriguing and stylish to make the wait worthwhile, as long as you accept the possibility of disappointment when all the secrets are revealed.
It all adds up to a drama that's strikingly filmed, gratifyingly smarter than it needs to be and -- better still in an era of bloated episode counts -- snappily paced.
It's a show that resonates on the surface more than in any deeper well of mental thought, but there's something effortlessly salacious and shocking about it that totally lives up to the likely page-turning nature of its source material.