How Novel....(SPOILERS!)

If you had watched the extra footage about the ending it was made clear the showrunners were plan was to simply get everyone to pull for Hugh Grant and then throw in the twist that he did it. The sad part is that they didn't even do that very well with a contrived court room twist that defied all the rules of evidence, not to mention the fact that the defense would have never put Nicole on the stand since it was clear that they had already created reasonable doubt which was all they needed to do.

I only watched it because there's nothing else on Sunday night.

I enjoyed the ending, though Dr. Fraser just giving up on the bridge was...anticlimactic. But probably real.

In the end, I just did not buy his performance, not all of it. It is so easy for him to revert to typecast...charming, self-deprecating sense of humor, and a bit but zany and neurotics, As he is in virtually all of his movies, which are usually romantic comedies. We're USED to it. When he did snap and lied to everyone around us, it was mostly convincing most of the time...except when it was not. And those moments really rang like a bell to me, such that his character was, to me, muddled and unbelievable. He gave it a great try.

Nicole Kidman's character's rationale for testifying was just out there and not believable as to WHY she would do it and HOW it would help. She acted it beautifully, but it was still so implausible and predictable. The lawyer was excellent, until she did not see the "she fucked me" ending.

The real biggie is why did he not TOSS the hammer in the lack, or better yet--in a river crossing a bridge. It was a remarkably stupid thing to do, and the kid finding it....? Massive plothole.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed the series and it was entertaining.