Not awful, not good. While I love Alfred Molina, he couldn't save this all by himself. I felt like this was Monk meets Dexter. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be comedic or suspenseful, so never really fully achieves either very well. In the eight episodes, four crimes are resolved (one every two episodes) and one larger overarching crime takes the whole season. Neither my wife felt engaged in any of the two episode crimes (you never bond with any of the victims since they die almost immediately after their screen entrances) and the season stretches crime advances methodically and mechanically. The towns characters, while sometimes amusing, were largely two dimensional caricatures with no substance to them. I identified strongest with the duck. In the end, mediocre television.
Review of Three Pines
