Instead of waiting for hours, weeks, or even seasons, the binge-able Netflix drama consistently provides new answers.
Told efficiently in eight episodes that clock in at less than 45-minutes each, “Safe” exemplifies the kind of quick thrills that can be made doubly satisfying with equally quick explanations. It’s a murder-mystery, and even though it’s an increasingly goofy murder-mystery, there are no hanging threads left to be tugged in Season 2. All the answers have been given, and even though curious fans might wonder how Tom, Jenny, and their family will recover (not to mention what happens to Sophie, a cop, in prison), that’s not the story “Safe” set out to tell. Or, as Coben put it in the interview, “I was just thinking about the idea of people building fences and walls to keep the bad out, but what if doing so, you keep the bad in?”īut the ending is also just that: an ending. It cements the series’ introspective look at how close-knit groups can become corrupted - and protect each other - when things go awry.
“Safe” ends with shots of Sophie walking into her prison cell and Tom walking back into his gated community. He calls the cops and turns in one of their best detectives.
Though she begs Tom not to tell anyone - even invoking his dead wife, claiming Rachel would want them to be happy together - he can’t protect her anymore. She killed Chris to cover up her part in the manslaughter. When he confronted her about the fire and recorded her confession, she wrestled him into the pool and drowned him before she even realized it. That’s right: The cop did it! It turns out Sophie went to pick up her kid from the party but ran into Chris pacing by the pool before anyone saw her. It’s the first time Tom’s seen it, and he immediately identifies its owner: It’s Sophie! (bum-bum- bum!) Nevertheless, Jenny is safely back in her dad’s arms, and it appears everything is over… until Detective Castle (Hannah Arterton) pulls out a pendant found at the crime scene. “I never wanted to kill her,” Bobby says, in an odd confessional that motivates his suicide but doesn’t explain why he went as far as he did before it. That’s why Helen has Jenny in the first place, but Bobby turns on her when she tells him about her plan to confess.ĭespite Bobby being so committed to hiding his secret that he kills Helen, sets her house on fire, kidnaps Jenny, and is ready to shoot a high school kid in the head, he turns the gun on himself when a (horribly planned) rescue attempt by Tom ( Michael C. Though they covered their tracks at the time, years later Jenny and her boyfriend Chris find out what happened and the guilty parties start trying to cover their tracks. Seeking vengeance and thinking the school was empty, Helen, Bobby, Craig, Rachel (Katy Carmichael), and Sophie (Amanda Abbington) set fire to the building and ended up killing multiple students who couldn’t get out. Why? Well, Helen wanted to come clean about what she, Bobby, and a group of three other kids did decades earlier. Before their son was found dead, the two were splitting up, Neil saw Zoe with one of her students, and he angrily took his vengeance by exposing them.īefore that, the audience finds out Jenny is alive she’s being held in Helen’s house (Karen Bryson), but she’s soon moved to Bobby’s (Milo Twomey) place after he kills Helen and sets her home on fire. Long before the finale, Zoe’s husband Neil (Joplin Sibtain) admits to exposing his wife’s affair with a student in a fit of rage. The answers were given in reverse order of importance (almost).
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New Movies: Release Calendar for September 2, Plus Where to Watch the Latest Films In doing so, he made it much more satisfying - like the perfect piece of cake, not too big or too small - but he also served up an example of why even the most outlandish murder-mysteries are stronger when they’re allowed to die out short and sweet. Rather than throw in a last-second reveal that upended the answers that had been building over the last few episodes, Coben chose to structure his project as eight episodes and out. That’s pretty emphatic as far as creator speculation goes, and Coben speaks even more clearly via the final episode: As a soapy, twist-driven mystery, “Safe” is all wrapped up.
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