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The Sinner

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Generally favorable reviews based on 48 Critic Reviews

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USA | Release Date: August 2, 2017

Summary: The drama based on Petra Hammesfahr's novel of the same name, focuses on a young mother named Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel) who has no idea why she committed a violent crime against a stranger at the beach and Detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) who wants to discover her motives.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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S4:E8. Part VIII
Air Date: December 1, 2021
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S4:E7. Part VII
Air Date: November 24, 2021
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S4:E6. Part VI
Air Date: November 17, 2021

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73

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Critic Reviews

88

Paste Magazine

Allison Keene

Feb 5, 2020

Season 3 Review: For drama fans (and crime drama fans in particular), The Sinner remains a very underrated anthology that always delivers a solid case with a great cast around it. It’s a good binge watch, but a worthy weekly exploration as well. Read full review

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Jul 31, 2018

Season 2 Review: Season Two has only just begun its twists and turns. But so far, so good, with ample possibilities still in play while Harry’s head tries to stay in the game. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Lorraine Ali

Aug 1, 2018

Season 2 Review: If the first few episodes are any indication, this is yet another disturbing/thought-provoking mystery worth unraveling. Read full review

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Jul 21, 2017

Season 1 Review: Pullman and Biel are solidly in charge of their pivotal roles in a drama where “close-ended” presumably means a firm conclusion and no Season Two. So at an economical eight episodes, all this gloom and doom at least has the benefit of also being foreseeably finite. Expect your tolerance to be tested, though, particularly in the first half of Episode One. But if I were you, I’d proceed. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Jul 19, 2018

Season 2 Review: Skeletons from Harrry's past further rattle his composure in an atmospheric tale that might be just the thing for those who find HBO's similarly unnerving Sharp Objects too pokey. [23 Jul - 5 Aug 2018, p.11]

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TVLine

Dave Nemetz

Jul 31, 2017

Season 1 Review: The Sinner does have a nicely lyrical visual style: It’s shot with a keen eye for detail, with an appropriately gloomy, unsettling musical score. But strangely, the more we learn about Cora’s complicated past, the less interesting her story becomes. The answers we do get are either too pat--the flashbacks to her childhood, with a young Cora being tormented by her fanatically religious mother, are painfully overwrought-- or they’re simply erased by the latest plot twists. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle

David Wiegand

Jul 31, 2017

Season 1 Review: The series is over-plotted, but not fatally so. Regardless of mini-howlers here and there, we’re as curious as Ambrose to know who Cora really is and what happened to her in the past that went off like a grenade on a sunny day at the beach. Read full review

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jesusleon

Feb 12, 2023

Top detective series. If you like thrillers like zodiac, seven, true detective(first season), you will like like this a lot, totally recomended.

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Lavi67

Apr 17, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ritmo costante che ha qualcosa di reale, personaggi credibili e Bill Pullman ti entra nella mente con la sua fragilità.… Expand

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Luke9648

Oct 17, 2022

This is more of a review of season 3, but first i'll just say season 1 was pretty good, had great moments, probably an 8. Season 2 was okay, more of a 7. The RT review page states The Sinner season 3 is about "toxic masculinity". That's cute. What a simplistic and biased way to look at it.This is more of a review of season 3, but first i'll just say season 1 was pretty good, had great moments, probably an 8. Season 2 was okay, more of a 7. The RT review page states The Sinner season 3 is about "toxic masculinity". That's cute. What a simplistic and biased way to look at it. No, Season 3 is about death. Death, talking about, learning about, and dealing with death. And the existential crisis of one man, on to another, on to another. Death is something each and everyone of us will deal with throughout our lives, and most of the time we try to hide it away. Or find ways to pretend it's all ok. Or that it won't happen to us. THAT is what season 3 is about, and i think it's a riveting, well acted, well directed, and well written season. 10/10, great stuff.… Expand

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crystalsmile

Jun 28, 2020

Fantastic show, dark, entertaining, clever. Season 1 and 2 differ quite a lot from 3 which is why (I assume) people give very mixed reviews to that one but I enjoyed all three of them.

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arostislavna

Dec 7, 2021

Jessica Biel is a master class producer, and this is her best acting role (Season 1) to date.

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Kevin41

Apr 18, 2021

Outstanding show! Beautiful story, great footage, photografy, suspence... Great performances by Bill Pullman and Jessica Biel, here at her best! Amazing

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OlivierPiel

May 26, 2020

The first one or two episodes of each season are usually quite intriguing and suspensful. Then it rapidly devolves into some kind of long drawn, brooding nonsense littered with psychological mumbo jumbo or, laughably simplistic and clichéd musings on Nietzschean philosophy as in season 3.
SoThe first one or two episodes of each season are usually quite intriguing and suspensful. Then it rapidly devolves into some kind of long drawn, brooding nonsense littered with psychological mumbo jumbo or, laughably simplistic and clichéd musings on Nietzschean philosophy as in season 3.
So points for Ep 1 and 2 and 0 for the rest.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

73

Series Overview
Season 4

70
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: October 13, 2021
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  S4:E8. Part VIII
  Air Date: December 1, 2021
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  S4:E7. Part VII
  Air Date: November 24, 2021
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  S4:E6. Part VI
  Air Date: November 17, 2021
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  S4:E5. Part V
  Air Date: November 10, 2021
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  S4:E4. Part IV
  Air Date: November 3, 2021
- tbd
  S4:E3. Part III
  Air Date: October 27, 2021
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  S4:E2. Part II
  Air Date: October 20, 2021
Season 3

81
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 6, 2020
Season 2

75
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 1, 2018
Season 1

71
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 2, 2017