Kate Winslet is great in this series, she unquestionably carries every episode with her acting skills. The atmosphere of this supsense-laden show is dense and seems very authentic. But: towards the end I felt that there was a little too much drama. Pretty much every family in this show has serious issues and can be defined as dysfunctional, so much so that I felt as if the director had taken the topics from a soap-opera and had tried to graft them on a more sophisticated TV-series. The last episode is a serious letdown with all its implausible twists and turns, culminating in a ridiculous sermon by the deacon, the church filled with the entire cast coming to terms with the most horrendous tragedies.

Let me say it this way: I seriously enjoyed watching the show, but I was left with a disappointing aftertaste and had a lot of questions regarding the plausibility of the plot.