Stay Close (2021)
6/10
Entertaining to watch if you send logic on vacation
23 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Where do I even start? I gave it a six because I actually liked watching it, it was captivating etc. But when it ends and they even give you the quick explanations of some loose ends (but it would take at least one more episode of explaining to catch them all)... you start remembering all the details that were conveniently pushed under the rug, hoping that no one would care to ask.

Like, the whole series is based on the premise that some horrible man who did horrible things to Megan, previously known as Cassie, is back and ready for revenge. We never ever see this man. At the end, it turns out he was dead all the time anyway, and all of this is happening because his killer had an inexplicable urge to catch up with Megan/Cassie and she couldn't just invite her over for a coffee instead, like normal people do. She also claims she killed this man because he was violent towards Cassie, but we did see that she, Cassie and the owner of the club took this man's money prior to his killing - so was he killed for the money or for the violence? Is Cassie just an innocent victim, or in fact the three of them are simply thieves and that went wrong? And we never find out where the money came from, how did they know for it, how and why they managed to take it prior to his killing etc. So many questions nobody cares to answer. Ok, so Lorraine killed him and put him in this hidden tomb - how is it even possible that, since we saw how easy was to find it - nobody found it before? How did she manage to put all the bodies there, not being a specially trained athlete with some superpowers? Who made this tomb anyway? How is it possible that two cops open the door, almost faint from the smell and just casually enter like it suddenly stopped smelling - and of course, they both go inside, not calling anyone for back up? When Lorraine confesses, she asks Broom to call off the back up, but they come anyway.

Now about Goldberg and the father of the missing young man. How are they connected? Why is chief of the Police (or this department) involved in some parallel, illegal hiring of private detectives - dancing killers ? Did he just casually give their number to the missing boy's father, because he happens to know them from the time they were all in the same circus? How did he even came to this position? Didn't he know they kill people? And when he himself gets killed in the Police station basement, after he locked Cassie and her daughter there - nobody just cares to walk around the station to find him?

Cassie. How credible that she came to this secluded spot in the woods and managed to free her daughter and run away. Also, how logical, when you hear your abuser who you're hiding from for 17 years is back, the first thing you do is go to his house and the basement he might be hiding in?

Also, detective never picks up the phone and spends half of their shift in a whirlwind romance with their long lost and found again lover (killer).

Everyone living in the same town and never saw each other for 17 years and they just all happen to reconnect?

Tawny gets killed and they never mention her again.

I could go on for another 10 pages of thing that make no sense or are left unexplained, but I think this will be enough.
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