SummaryThe drama based on Petra Hammesfahr's novel of the same name, focuses on a young mother named Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel) who has no idea why she committed a violent crime against a stranger at the beach and Detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) who wants to discover her motives.
Created By:Derek Simonds
The Sinner
Season 1 Premiere:
Aug 2, 2017
Metascore
Generally Favorable
73
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
73
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39 Reviews
39 Reviews
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Feb 5, 2020
88
For drama fans (and crime drama fans in particular), The Sinner remains a very underrated anthology that always delivers a solid case with a great cast around it. It’s a good binge watch, but a worthy weekly exploration as well.
Jul 31, 2017
83
The Sinner is a procedural. But unlike most others that are obsessed with the “who,” this gets at the “why.” Talk about intriguing.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
72% Positive
225 Ratings
225 Ratings
13% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
15% Negative
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
Feb 12, 2023
10
Top detective series. If you like thrillers like zodiac, seven, true detective(first season), you will like like this a lot, totally recomended.
Oct 17, 2022
10
This is more of a review of season 3, but first i'll just say season 1 was pretty good, had great moments, probably an 8. Season 2 was okay, more of a 7. The RT review page states The Sinner season 3 is about "toxic masculinity". That's cute. What a simplistic and biased way to look at it. No, Season 3 is about death. Death, talking about, learning about, and dealing with death. And the existential crisis of one man, on to another, on to another. Death is something each and everyone of us will deal with throughout our lives, and most of the time we try to hide it away. Or find ways to pretend it's all ok. Or that it won't happen to us. THAT is what season 3 is about, and i think it's a riveting, well acted, well directed, and well written season. 10/10, great stuff.
Aug 2, 2017
80
The Sinner proceeds according to its own internal logic, and while I would quibble with the presentation of one or two bits of information in the first couple of episodes, there are no moments that feel egregiously contrived or unfair to the audience.
Jul 21, 2017
75
Pullman and Biel are solidly in charge of their pivotal roles in a drama where “close-ended” presumably means a firm conclusion and no Season Two. So at an economical eight episodes, all this gloom and doom at least has the benefit of also being foreseeably finite. Expect your tolerance to be tested, though, particularly in the first half of Episode One. But if I were you, I’d proceed.
Aug 3, 2017
70
It’s a show that resonates on the surface more than in any deeper well of mental thought, but there’s something effortlessly salacious and shocking about it that totally lives up to the likely page-turning nature of its source material.
Oct 12, 2021
60
“The Sinner” feels more like a familiar mystery series than it did at the best points in the first three years. ... If Kremelberg is meant to be this year's star, she's a cipher to start the season, and other Muldoons feel a bit undefined as well.
Jul 31, 2017
50
The series is over-plotted, but not fatally so. Regardless of mini-howlers here and there, we’re as curious as Ambrose to know who Cora really is and what happened to her in the past that went off like a grenade on a sunny day at the beach.
May 11, 2024
5
There is a huge plot hole in the story that spoils otherwise very good cast, atmosphere and pace. Show is made from a book which might have the same problem but nevertheless it is just not acceptable that such script flaws are produced nowadays. Is there anyone paying attention? Often it is the case in crime mystery. The "unveiling" of the mystery is so dumb that viewer feels even more stupid for investing the time in watching it. Hyper-production does not breed quality. This is more prevalent in new streamers than in traditional TV. Not sure if it has to do with lack of knowledge and experience in production? I am really cautious with anything freshly produced as it is 9 out of 10 not prime time material.
Sep 9, 2020
5
Season 1: Starts out intriguing, creates an interesting enigma, but gradually collapses under the characters’ strange and irrational behavior, and several plot holes. The last two episodes are told With a lot of too drawn-out scenes which makes you want to fast-forward since it is obvious what is going to happen.
Apr 14, 2021
4
Not even Bill Pullman can save such manipulative scripting shot through with implausibilities. I barely made it through Season One and wish I hadn't. Torturous.
May 26, 2020
3
The first one or two episodes of each season are usually quite intriguing and suspensful. Then it rapidly devolves into some kind of long drawn, brooding nonsense littered with psychological mumbo jumbo or, laughably simplistic and clichéd musings on Nietzschean philosophy as in season 3.
So points for Ep 1 and 2 and 0 for the rest.
Production Company:
- Iron Ocean Films
- Universal Cable Productions
Initial Release Date:Aug 2, 2017
Number of seasons:4 Seasons
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 3 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 3 Nominations
