Fool Me Once (2024)
1/10
A Real Time-Saver When You Give Up on the First Episode
1 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Here is why I stopped watching before the end of the first episode. A woman's husband is shot down dead right in front of her. She is a woman with combat experience, and she is cradling her dying husband in her arms after he's been shot three times, once right in the center of his chest. Dead, right? There's a funeral and everything. But then he shows up on her nanny cam sometime later. So, husband not dead; husband alive. Wife too much of an idiot to tell that gunshots weren't real. I didn't watch the series to see what happened, so maybe this guy is a body double. Either way, it's stupid.

As if this isn't stupid enough, she takes it out on the nanny for some reason. Then, the nanny pepper sprays the non-widow. Almost immediately, the police detective investigating the murder shows up at her house. What a coincidence!

Fast-forward to the last episode where the truth is revealed and all I could manage was a "WTF?" I can't decide which main character I liked the least, the protagonist or the detective who suffers from fainting spells like a dowager in a Marx Brothers movie who's just seen a mouse.

The production was third rate, and that's being generous. Weak direction and worse editing, too much bad music, and actors that I can only imagine were picked off the street at random.

The whole premise is predicated on her having a nanny cam. Her husband was recently murdered and she's very well off, she'd probably have a house full of cameras like all rich people, especially if they were recent crime victims.
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