Secrets and Lies review — collider.com

Like NBC’s The Slap, ABC’s Secrets & Lies is based on an Australian miniseries whose American adaptation seems to be missing something in translation. It’s not quiet as egregious, though, as Fox’s Gracepoint, which was a much less compelling, shot-for-shot remake of the UK’s Broadchurch (yet another crime series revolving around a child’s death). But while the impulse to make these crime miniseries — which likely have come from the success of True Detective‘s engrossing and finite storytelling — is admirable, the results aren’t quite up to par.

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