At the outset I thought this would be similar to Broadchurch, unfortunately that wasn't the case at all. The first episode was good but with each new disappearance I began to focus on the negatives.
Why didn't Sharif have an entire team working on this case rather than just the one local cop? Why wasn't Sharif fired sooner? All he did was show up after the next victim was abducted and then head back to his makeshift office to stare at his victim board. And, why didn't they search all the outbuildings in the village?
Then there was the acting. Maybe the director instructed everyone to show as little emotion as possible in an effort to keep the viewers guessing. The blank faces and lack of emotion did lead me to suspect everyone at one point or another but it also made it hard to care about anyone. When it looked like the answer might be alien abduction I thought that if nothing else, a sci-fi twist would explain why the people seemed like inhabitants of a Stepford village.
As for the actual ending, I'm not sure if alien abduction would have been any worse. I'd hoped the missing people were being held hostage but no, they were all dead because the town shunned the shrink's ex-con mother. What a waste of time.
Why didn't Sharif have an entire team working on this case rather than just the one local cop? Why wasn't Sharif fired sooner? All he did was show up after the next victim was abducted and then head back to his makeshift office to stare at his victim board. And, why didn't they search all the outbuildings in the village?
Then there was the acting. Maybe the director instructed everyone to show as little emotion as possible in an effort to keep the viewers guessing. The blank faces and lack of emotion did lead me to suspect everyone at one point or another but it also made it hard to care about anyone. When it looked like the answer might be alien abduction I thought that if nothing else, a sci-fi twist would explain why the people seemed like inhabitants of a Stepford village.
As for the actual ending, I'm not sure if alien abduction would have been any worse. I'd hoped the missing people were being held hostage but no, they were all dead because the town shunned the shrink's ex-con mother. What a waste of time.