A good twist in the season 2 finale of The Sinner this week. Turns out Marin's killer wasn't a killer - her shooting was an accident in a scuffle - and it wasn't the Beacon who was part of this. He's apparently long dead after all.
Jack Novak was a pretty good surprise - the kind that is instantly believable after coming out of the blue. And his connection to Marin certainly is plausible. He raped Marin, after she and Heather came back to his/Heather's house, as teenagers, with Heather blind drunk and Marin not in any shape to go home. And at that point, the rest was predictable: Jack is Julian's father, and he'd been sending money to Vera for Julian (maybe Vera was blackmailing Jack).
The Vera and Julian escape thread was also handled well. Vera wants to take Julian to Washington state, where'd he'd be free and safe. But Julian doesn't want to run the rest of his life. And Harry is able to convince Vera on the phone that her best course of action is to bring Julian back to upstate New York.
The one unsatisfying part of this finale is, unsurprisingly, Harry's story. We still don't know exactly what happened between him and his mother, and still don't not know exactly why he wants oblivion, even after he and we finally here the recording of what he said to Vera when he was under the influence of that mind-altering drug. I guess this means that, if The Sinner continues - which I hope it does - we'll have as a more-or-less constant the ambiguity of Harry, and still not knowing what made him what he is today.
But that still amounts to a highly original, compelling character, and I'm definitely game for a third season.
See also The Sinner 2.1: The Boy ... The Sinner 2.2: Heather's Story ... The Sinner 2.3: Julian's Mother ... The Sinner 2.5: The Scapegoat ... The Simmer 2.7: Occluded Past Unwound - Mostly
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