Full spoilers for the episode follow.
As we continue into the latter half of Low Winter Sun's first season, all of the various threads that have felt disparate up to this point are slowly starting to tie together. The problem is that all of that setup was unbelievably tedious with far too little investment in these characters to really care now. That said, as an episode, "There Was A Girl" is full of solid, complex performances across the board even if you don't necessarily care all that much about what's happening.
Low Winter Sun is a show about deception; deception of the law, deception of your colleagues, deception of your loved ones, and probably most of all, deception of yourself. So in this episode that's centered around the interrogation of Damon and trying to get at the truth behind McCann's murder, it's fascinating to watch director Catherine Hardwicke draw these complicated motivations onto the screen. Everybody is screaming at one another about the truth yet every single one of them obfuscating it, be it from each other or from themselves. Dramatically, this is probably the most rewarding episode of Low Winter Sun to date, which extends to the performances as well.
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