A engaging series about revenge, secrets and the magic of electric chemistry. While some of the twists are more obvious than others, the show thrives because the audience never quite knows what to expect.

It’s not a bad show at all, but what kept it afloat for me were the detectives. .... Not for the first time in my TV watching career did I wish that detectives from a limited series might be transferred into a show of their own.

“56 Days” has a few blips of implausibility that can take the audience out of the suspense. .... Overall, for a twisty thriller, “56 Days,” is quite entertaining. The lead actors are solid.

As far as guilty pleasures go, Prime Video’s cockamamie but sexy mystery series serves its purpose. So good on that. But be ready to titter away at its unbelievable twists and turns. They’re ridiculous but fun.

Cameron and Jogia have chemistry and clearly have fun playing off their characters’ respective demons. But it isn’t enough to buoy the weight put on their shoulders in carrying this overly long season.

56 Days suggests halfheartedly that the very wrongness of this courtship is what makes it so hot for them, and for us. But its insistence on playing coy about exactly how wrong it is or why, saving all of Oliver and Ciara’s deepest, darkest secrets until the penultimate flashback episode, is to its own detriment.

If you stick it out until the end of the eight episodes – assuming you’re in the TikTok demographic or you’re bed-bound and have mislaid the remote control – you will find that it does have quite a satisfying ending when it comes to identifying the body in the bath. But by then, like the corpse, your brain will have turned to slop.