“The Sinner” is a popular anthology crime series, that has gained a lot of popularity worldwide, since it began broadcasted.
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- The Sinner is an American anthology crime drama mystery TV series.
- The anthology means that every season has its own plot, characters, and actors/actresses.
- It was developed by Derek Simonds for USA Network.
- The series is named after Petra Hammesfahr’s 1999 novel.
- This novel serves as the basis for the first season.
- Bill Pullman stars as a police detective who investigates crimes committed by unlikely culprits and attempts to uncover the culprits’ motivations.
- Only Pullman appears in each season, with the rest of the cast alternating for the standalone stories of the seasons.
- Originally intended as an eight-part miniseries.
- The Sinner premiered on August 2, 2017, to critical acclaim and high ratings.
- The show’s success led to USA Network turning it into an anthology series.
- In March 2018, the series was renewed for a second season, also of eight episodes.
- The second season aired in 2018.
- The third season aired in 2020.
- A fourth season has also been ordered.
- The first season of The Sinner received two nominations at the 75th Golden Globe Awards: Best Miniseries or Television Film and Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Jessica Biel.
- Jessica Biel was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
- In the first season, Detective Harry Ambrose delves into the past of Cora Tannetti, a troubled woman, to determine why she stabbed a man to death.
- In the second season, Ambrose returns to his hometown after a young boy named Julian Walker confesses to poisoning a couple and learns secrets that the inhabitants are determined to keep buried.
- In the third season, Ambrose investigates a fatal car accident in Upstate New York and uncovers a much larger and disturbing case behind it.
- Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts, who appeared in season 2, are married in real life.
- This is Jessica Biel’s first leading role in a TV series.
- Eight episodes of the program, originally conceived of as a “close-ended series”, were ordered in January 2017 and premiered on air on USA Network on August 2, 2017.
- The pilot episode premiered during the TriBeCa Film Festival on April 24, 2017.
- Tracy Letts and series director Antonio Campos previously worked together on Christine(2016).
- The song “Hugging & Kissing” by Big Black Delta features heavily throughout the first season.
- This happens because it’s vital to the plot.
- First season’s tagline is: Everyone knows she did it. No one knows why.
- The Sinner gained even more populari, when it was aired on Netflix.
- Matt Zoller Seitz wrote for the Vulture that “The Sinner” as a superbly executed murder mystery
- The first season so far has gained the best reviews.
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