Question: Is Falling Water worth the effort it takes to keep all the characters and plots straight? — D. Bergholz
Matt Roush: Wasn’t worth it to me. I watched four episodes before filing my review, and bailing, at which time I concluded “this ponderous, pretentious thriller asks too much of us with too little immediate reward.”
Question: I have read very little about USA’s Eyewitness. In fact, I didn’t even know about it until recently. I binged all nine episodes and love it; any idea if it will get a second season, and since they called it an “anthology” show, what that would look like? – Chris
Matt Roush: You may not have been looking, but I reviewed both of USA’s buzz-free exercises in murky drama upon their premieres in October. I wasn’t keen on Eyewitness (having screened something like seven episodes in advance), feeling it was a weak clone of The Killing-style European- influenced mysteries. (It’s based on a Norwegian series.) But I did like Julianne Nicholson as the sheriff, and should the show be renewed — seems a bit of a long shot — it would be an entirely new mystery (hence the “anthology” classification), although perhaps her character might carry over, hard to say. The idea would be to tell a different story with another “eyewitness” angle each season.
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