Cheating spouses. Scheming teenagers. Creepy guys in hoodies. For lovers of TV thrillers, the list of possible murder suspects is long, if somewhat predictable. For makers of TV thrillers, however, the show-killer list is short, but also predictable.
It is the series format itself, and the process of stretching one nail-biting story over many hours will get you almost every time.
The latest victim of the Too Many Episodes Killer is "Pieces of Her," a new drama that debuted Friday on Netflix. Based on the bestselling Karin Slaughter novel of the same name, the series stars Toni Collette ("Nightmare Alley") as Laura Oliver, a speech therapist and a woman with many secrets. Bella Heathcote ("The Man in the High Castle") co-stars as Laura's daughter Andy, a would-be artist who has moved back home to bucolic small-town Georgia and pretty much given up on life.
