Monday, July 20, 2020

Absentia 2019 Season One

     Emily Byrne is a FBI agent and she is married to special agent  Nick Durand and he is also an FBI agent.  They have a 2-year old son son Flynn Durand and a black lab dog.  Emily mysteriously disappears and she hasn’t been seen or heard from for six years.  No one knows what happened to her?  Nick has remarried to Alice Durand and Flynn is 8 years old.  Emily is found in a deserted industrial space and she has no memory of what happened during the time she was missing.  She has a new reality with Alice married to Nick and the is raising Flynn.  Nick tries to help her discover what happened, were she was and who did this to her.  Of course, Alice is not happy that Emily is back but she is trying to work everything out.  Flynn is happy that his mother is back in his life.  Emily’s father is very supportive but her brother Jack is a loser!!
 
     This season of the series leaves you on the edge of your seat every moment!!  Emily is blamed for a series of new murders?  This is a grim police drama with some very disturbing scenes and gory details.  There are beatings, a woman is tortured, bodies in various stages of decomposition are shown and a young character is injured in a crash.  The above mentioned events in this series go by very quickly and the plot is very engrossing.  5* (I really liked this series)    

    
Note:  Imdb 7.3 out of 10 with 10,185 reviews, Amazon 3.4*out of 5*, Metacritic 59 out of 100 with 4 critics reviews (positive 2, mixed 1, negative 1), 6.4 out of 10 with 25 user scores (positive 16, mixed 5, negative 4), Rotten Tomatoes 47% with 15 critics 69% with 175 user ratings, tracking-board.com B-, Common Sense Media Mark Dolan, age 17+, positive messages 0, role models 1*, violence 5*, sex 3*, language 4*, consumerism 0, drinking drugs & smoking 2*.


Three Seasons, 2018, 2019, 2020, Amazon Prime, Crime, each episode one hour, created by Matthew Cirulnick and Gaia Violo with Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger, Neil Jackson, Paul Freeman, Christopher Colquhoun, Patrick McAuley, Cara Theobold, Angel Bopnanni.


Special Note:  Actor Angel Bonnanni in the role of Tommy Gibbs had to learn how to handle a weapon for this series.  He also watched documentaries on detectives and the police.  He did extensive research to get into his character.  All ten episodes were filmed at once and this is ver uncommon for TV.  Oded Ruskin, the director, said he was able to track all the story lines at once.  Filming was done in three and a half months in the middle of winter.  The setting is supposed to be Boston Massachusetts but it was actually filmed in Sofia Bulgaria.


Episode Titles:  Comeback, Reset, The Emily Show, Me You Him Me, Dig, Nobody’s Innocent, A&B, Brave Boy, Child’s Play, Original Sin.   

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