The Sinner 3.1: Second Degree Murder, First Degree Detective

The Sinner was back tonight for its third season, which, at first blush, looks to be more of a straight-up whodunnit than the first two seasons, or at least the second season, which is fine in my book,

Harry Ambroise is in pretty good shape, suffering mainly from an intermittent sciatica.   Bill Pullman, as always, is perfect for this role, with just the right mix and degree of savvy and vulnerability. He's suspicious of the passenger survivor of a car crash which killed the driver.  As ever, Harry is right.

The survivor is some kind of psycho, a high school teacher in upstate New York, Jamie, well played by Matt Bomer.  His wife is very pregnant.  His college buddy Nick shows up, apparently unannounced, and references some kind of unexplained things they did together in college.

Those things were presumably not good, and at least in part involved a woman who now lives in some kind of driving distance from Jamie.  Nick wants to pay her a visit, Jamie does not. Nick refuses to listen, Jamie pulls the emergency break on the car which causes it to crash.   Jamie is relatively unhurt, and refuses to call 911.  That act, according to Harry, would constitute second degree murder.

But how will Harry prove that, and what else will he find in Jamie's past and present?  I don't think we knew so much about the killer in the first two seasons, this soon in the narrative, and that makes this season of The Sinner especially interesting.  See you back here next week.

See also The Sinner 2.1: The Boy ... The Sinner 2.2:  Heather's Story ... The Sinner 2.3: Julian's Mother ... The Sinner 2.5: The Scapegoat ... The Simmer 2.7: Occluded Past Unwound - Mostly ... The Sinner Season 2 Finale: The Ambiguity of Harry

And see also: The Sinner season one: Wild, Unconventional, Irresistible Mystery

 
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