A powerful, powerfully odd season 3 finale of The Sinner tonight, including a cut to black ending with no closing credits.
Before that, why didn't Harry shoot Jamie sooner, after Jamie came this close to killing Harry's grandson? But Harry's reaction afterwards, trying to save then comfort the dying Jamie, and then breaking down to Sonya, that makes perfect sense. Harry shared such an essential part of Jamie that Harry felt that he killed a part of himself.
The best thing to come out of this season for Harry is finding someone like Sonya. She clearly felt some kind of kinship with Jamie, too. That's why she didn't leave her home after Harry warned her that Jamie was coming to do her harm. She had to face Jamie, to talk to him, because she felt she could better know herself via that encounter. So Harry and Sonya have a good basis for a relationship: they both had an attraction, see something of themselves, in this deeply troubled psycho (I guess that's redundant - deeply troubled psycho - but it seems an apt description of Jamie.)
Another puzzle: unless I imagined it, I thought I saw a shot of Jamie with short hair and the beginning of a beard in the what's-ahead splash in the commercial break. Did I imagine that? If not, what was that? A shot from an alternate ending in which Jamie somehow survived?
Questions like that get to what's really unique about The Sinner: stories just this side of insanity, that quote Jung, as Jamie did tonight, that draw you in because they have just that necessary minimum of logic, but increasingly flirt with going off the rails.
More than enough for me to know I'll be watching the next season, if there is one!
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 ... The Sinner 3.4-5: Why Doesn't Harry Just Arrest Jamie ... The Sinner 3.6: Faustian Bargains ... The Sinner 3.7: Confession and Connection
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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