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Review of "The Sinner" 8/5/17 by Suzanne
Airs Wednesdays 10/9c on USA Network

This show really grabs you and makes you want to keep watching. Jessica Biel, who's almost unrecognizable here as a drab, mousy woman, plays a wife and mother, who works with her husband and his family in their air-conditioning repair business.   She appears to be having weird memories or dreams about her childhood that involve religion, and she also seems unhappy and perhaps suicidal. Then, while at the beach, she does something horribly violent and shocking. The rest of the series follows a detective (Bill Pullman), who tries to find out why she did it.  He's got a lot of demons of his own that we see as he investigates.

I only watched the first episode, but I can say it's a doozy and I want to see what else will happen. It's the type of series that has many surprises and shocks.  It's more like a mini-series, with only 8 episodes, so I guess we'll find out why she did it.

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THE SINNER STARRING JESSICA BIEL AND BILL PULLMAN AIRS NEW EPISODES WEDNESDAYS AT 10/9c! 

An eight episode close-ended series, The Sinner follows a young mother (Jessica Biel) who, when overcome by an inexplicable fit of rage, commits a startling act of violence and to her horror has no idea why. The event launches an inverted and utterly surprising crime thriller whose driving force is not the “who” or the “what” -- but the “why” -- as an investigator (Bill Pullman) finds himself obsessed with uncovering the woman's buried motive. Together they travel a harrowing journey into the depths of her psyche and the violent secrets hidden in her past. New episodes of The Sinner air Wednesdays at 10/9c on USA.