Mudtown

Weaves police-procedural knottiness around a family-oriented thriller. But what separates it from the crowd of such domestic dramas are the dynamics of the clan. .... The performances are first-rate; Claire and Pete, for instance, are imbued by Ms. Richards and Mr. Cullen with a distinctly unstable chemistry. But “Mudtown” is also distinguished by the uncommon amount of deviant psychology at play among the characters.

It gets much better after that expositional first episode.