The Harper family is experiencing some stress. Jackie (Helen Hunt) had an affair, which has completely wrecked her marriage to Greg (Jon Tenney), a cop who has just had a child in town go missing in a way eerily reminiscent of child abductions and murders fifteen years ago, and strained her relationship to her teenage son, Connor (Judah Lewis). On top of all that, things around the house are going missing, pictures disappearing from frames, electronics turning on seemingly by themselves, escalating to violence.
This was so boring that I immediately forgot the ending even though I just watched it. I had to look it up on Wikipedia. It seems like it wants to be smarter than it is but really, nothing made any sense. Nobody's character motivations seemed plausible and the middle third is basically a repeat of the beginning but from a different POV so you're watching the exact same movie twice. I've seen that done well, but not here. Helen Hunt is completely wasted. I kept waiting for her to have a bigger part. Hugely disappointing, but that's just me. If you like procedurals grounded in human-on-human violence, rather than supernatural, you might enjoy this. It's streaming on Paramount+.
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