Didn't get a chance to review The Sinner 3.4, so I'll review both 3.4 and 3.5 right here. The question for me which looms ever larger in 3.4 and 3.5 is why doesn't Harry just arrest Jamie already?
Episode 3.4 was actually a great standalone episode, which reminded me a lot of Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), a nightmare night if there ever was one in lower Manhattan. In The Sinner, Harry goes an escalating crisis of trying to contain Jamie, or get some kind of confession from him, which ends with Harry passed out in his car (he took some strong drug for his sciatica) and Jamie on the loose with an opportunity to kill someone, which he does.
But why doesn't Harry arrest Jamie already? I know, he doesn't have much evidence, or at least enough evidence on Jamie. And before the frenzied killing at the end of episode 3.4, Jamie was at most guilty of the weakest kind of murder - letting someone bleed out - if that is even any kind of murder at all. But all through 3.5, Harry becomes increasingly aware that Jamie has killed and could kill again. Why is Harry pussy-footing around?
On the plus side of 3.5, it was good to see Harry kiss the artist, and nice to see her say that "was nice". Long suffering Harry - suffering not only physically but emotionally - could use a little sexual healing in his life, not to mention eventually some love.
Despite my unwillingness to suspend my disbelief about Harry letting Jamie stay on the loose, I'm really enjoying this season, especially the New York City scenes, and the scenes in that fictional upstate town, which is really none of other than Hartsdale, or at least the Hartsdale train station, in our reality.
See also The Sinner 3.1: Second Degree Murder, First Degree Detective ... The Sinner 3.2: The Contractor and the Contractee ... The Sinner 3.3: The Baby Monster
And 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 ... The Sinner Season 2 Finale: The Ambiguity of Harry
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