Claire Danes plays a successful writer, who’s disturbed by her new neighbor (Matthew Rhys), a rich man who was suspected of killing his first wife. After several confrontations, she agrees to pen a book about him, hoping to set the record straight. Of course, her digging leads to revelations. In terms of plot and predictability, this is pretty standard fare. Danes creates a character who’s in continual distress (which gets a bit tiresome) and Rhys is effectively creepy. Thanks to the chemistry, their cat-and-mouse game is interesting, but the back-and-forth does get repetitive. Like so many of these thrillers, the situations veer into unrealistic and there’s one glaring misstep: Every time she interviews someone for the book (except the last), she never takes notes or records the conversations. That’s pretty standard procedure for a researcher. Overall, it’s a cerebral thriller that only really gets interesting in the final eps…if you can make it that long. 
(2.5 / 5)
