Series · Netflix · 2017
Absentia
A woman returns to a house that had to go on. The show prefers the torture to the homecoming.
The human situation is serious: a child has been raised by someone else, a marriage has been buried, and the missing woman is not a symbol to the people who kept living. Absentia notes that and then reaches for the knives. You do not need the knives to feel the cost of a disappearance.
Leave it if anyone young is in the house. Grown viewers who want the family question can find it in quieter stories on this shelf.
The eight
Industry
5/10
She was an agent, and the job is why she vanished. Craft is not the interest. Damage is.
Household
4/10
A husband, a son, a new wife. The tangle is real and then exploited.
Piety
2/10
Suffering is the aesthetic.
Courage
6/10
She endures what should have killed her. Endurance is not the same as a reason.
Republic
4/10
The Bureau is compromised, which is the modern shortcut.
Temperance
2/10
Cruelty is graphic and repeated.
Truth
5/10
Who took her is a real question. The show enjoys withholding it.
Stewardship
3/10
A son needed a mother. He gets a case file.
Live historicallyTell your household, in plain words, who would raise the children if you did not come home. Do it this month.