we watched the first episode…….
The first season follows the story of Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager in New York, who upon meeting Guinevere Beck, an aspiring writer, becomes immediately infatuated with her. To feed his toxic obsession, he uses social media and other technology to track her presence and remove obstacles to their romance.
Have to admit the book was better😉so probably won’t be continuing with the series.
Then we watched …….
Stephanie Smothers is a widowed single mother who runs a vlog crafts and recipes for parents. Emily Nelson is a PR director for a fashion company. The two women become friends when their sons share a play date. Over martinis, they exchange confessions; Stephanie admits to Emily that as a teenager, she had sex with her half-brother Chris. Emily expresses her frustration at the lack of success of her husband, English professor Sean Townsend and their poor financial situation.
Emily has a work crisis and asks Stephanie to babysit her son while Sean is in London attending to his injured mother. After two days with Emily not returning her calls, Stephanie calls Emily’s employer, Dennis Nylon, and is told that Emily is in Miami. Stephanie then calls Sean, who contacts the police. Trying to solve her disappearance, Stephanie looks for answers by sneaking into Emily’s office. After looking around, Stephanie comes across a photo of Emily that was hidden on her desk. Stephanie had wanted to make missing persons flyers but could not find any pictures of Emily until finding this one; she uses it to make the posters.
Detective Summerville reports that Emily lied about flying to Miami and that she rented a car. A fan of Stephanie’s vlog reports seeing Emily in Michigan and Emily’s car is discovered near a summer camp, where police find her drowned body in the lake. Stephanie and Sean bond over their shared grief and begin a sexual relationship. Detective Summerville later reveals to Stephanie that Emily had severe liver damage, and a large amount of heroin in her system and that Sean had recently taken out a $4 million life insurance policy on Emily.
Emily, alive and in hiding, sends Stephanie an insulting message about her tryst with her half-brother, causing Stephanie to recall how her late husband, Davis, suspected her infidelity and may have intentionally caused the car crash that took both his and her half-brother’s lives.
Stephanie investigates Emily’s past, speaking to Diana Hyland, an artist who painted a portrait of Emily. Diana says the girl in the painting is Claudia, her muse and describes her as a con artist has disappeared. Stephanie asks about Michigan, and Diana provides information that leads Stephanie to a yearbook showing that Emily is actually Hope McLanden and that she has an identical twin named Faith McLanden. Stephanie meets with the twins’ mother, Margaret, who explains that when they were 16 years old, the twins set fire to a wing of the house, killing their father. Meanwhile, Emily surprises Sean at their favorite restaurant and tells him about her plan to collect the insurance money to resolve their financial issues and leave the country.
Stephanie lures Emily into meeting her through cryptic messages on her vlog hinting when she would be at Emily’s gravesite. Emily explains that she is Hope and that she and her sister started the fire to kill their abusive father. The two fled and planned to reunite later, but Faith never appeared. Emily worked hard building a career and a family when, 16 years later, Faith contacted her. Now an alcoholic and a heroin addict, Faith attempted to blackmail Emily for a million dollars, threatening to confess about the arson. After agreeing, the two went swimming in the lake and Emily drowned Faith. Emily lies, saying Faith had committed suicide and that Sean planned the insurance scam.
Emily is angered by Sean’s relationship with Stephanie, while Stephanie is angered by Sean’s eagerness to rejoin Emily. Stephanie agrees to help Emily reappear to the public and frame Sean making it look like he was abusing her. Sean is arrested and released on bail. Stephanie has a change of heart and stages a fake argument with Sean in front of Emily to incriminate her, while police-planted microphones are recording. Stephanie then fakes shooting Sean. Emily had predicted their ruse and had found and disabled the microphones. Emily confesses to the crimes, and holds the pair at gunpoint, telling them she will kill them and stage a murder-suicide. She shoots Sean in the shoulder and turns the gun on Stephanie, who reveals that she has a hidden camera live-streaming the entire event on her vlog. Emily is arrested after being struck by a car.
I liked it. The twists keep you guessing.
And today was the day my daughter died. And it’s been 6 years already!! Where has the time gone? It seems like only yesterday we said goodbye. So we took flowers up to her grave.
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