Under this tasteful gloss, however, is a pervasive sense of blandness - in the characters, their relationships and even, somehow, in the story’s unpredictable turns. The drama may never get fully engrossing, but it’s perfectly watchable throughout - especially since much of the early action unfolds in a Sausalito floating home so pristine and pretty, Hannah and Bailey might as well be freaking out from within an Architectural Digest home tour. If some of the later developments strain credulity (an awful lot of the plot hinges on the ability of a very small child to retain detailed memories), we’re at least primed to expect the unexpected by the time they come along. The Last Thing He Told Me hums along at a steady pace, with twists that drop at regular intervals and reveals that dial up the craziness one notch at a time. The deeper they dig into who Owen really was and what he was really up to, the less the pieces seem to add up. This being a miniseries with seven hour-long episodes to fill, of course they’re right. By all appearances, he’s on the run from a federal investigation into an Enron-level fraud orchestrated by the tech firm he works for - and yet Bailey and Hannah cannot shake the suspicion that there’s more to his flight than meets the eye. On a day that starts out seeming like any other, Owen disappears, leaving no clues as to where he’s gone and only a few hints about what’s to come: a pair of cryptic notes to Hannah, now his wife of one year, and Bailey (Angourie Rice), his teenage daughter from a previous marriage, along with a fat bag of cash.

Cast: Jennifer Garner, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Angourie Rice, Aisha Tyler, Augusto Aguilera, Geoff Stults, John Harlan Kimįaithfully adapted by Laura Dave and Josh Singer from Dave’s own bestselling novel, The Last Thing He Told Me begins with an irresistible mystery.

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