![]() ![]() READ MORE: The 25 Best TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2020 Like John, Emma wants to move past her crime and punishment, though she’s by far the more sympathetic of the two she doesn’t know about Kit’s crimes throughout their relationship, and having been exposed to the truth, she’s trying to put the pieces of her life back together. ![]() Mary believes serial killer Kit Parker ( Xavier Samuel), Emma’s former squeeze, is the one who took her girl, and is so desperate to find her that she strongarms John into serving as her personal private detective, driving all over Texas (and beyond) to locate Emma. The show centers on three people: Kate ( Lily Rabe), rechristened “Emma” as she embarks on a new life in witness protection, Mary ( Amy Brenneman), head of a foundation that tracks down missing children and a grieving mother carrying a torch for her own lost daughter, and John ( Hamish Linklater), a serial predator striving for redemption. The number of ways Warner stuffs excess meaning into the basic conceit of “Tell Me Your Secrets” ends up dominating the areas where that meaning should carry the most weight. READ MORE: The 65 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2021 The protagonists have secrets, but hoo boy, they’re not the only ones! ![]() Failure is failure, though, and “Tell Me Your Secrets,” its scattered better merits aside, makes a mess of itself by opting away from grime and leaning hard on a tangle of interwoven plot threads written to emphasize the series’ title. Remember when movies and TV shows billed as “sleazy” actually lived up to sleaze’s promise? No one else does, either, which at least makes the faux-sordid veneer splashed across Harriet Warner’s “ Tell Me Your Secrets” less disappointing: If nothing that aspires to sleaziness manages to get there, then we can forgive one show for half-assing an attempt at dirtbag storytelling. ![]()
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