They proceed to engage in target practice by placing empty bottles on top of someone’s car in the parking lot. ![]() She meets a stranger (Jacob Scipio), and after finding out he’s a war veteran, asks him to show her how to shoot the gun she doesn’t know how to use. ![]() Instead of driving straight through to Maine, she stops at a motel and heads to the bar across the road, where she makes the first in a series of increasingly foolish decisions. There’s a suitcase full of even more cash and a gun in the glove compartment of the Toyota that’s waiting for her. Laura is in obvious danger and wants to get Andy out of harm’s way.Īndy agrees to do this, despite having no idea what’s going on. Laura, suddenly shifting gears, then gives Andy a mysterious mission, along with an envelope full of cash, some keys, and hurried instructions to drive to a nearby town, pick up a car from a storage unit, and drive all the way to Maine without stopping. The additional visibility places her in even more danger of being found by the apparent cabal of stalkers that are after her. She eventually agrees to do an appearance on the Today show. Gordon eventually arrives and helps out, but she is still determined that Andy needs to leave.īy the next morning, Laura’s home is completely surrounded by news media looking to get an interview. Later that night an intruder breaks in and attacks Laura, who, despite having one functioning hand - and probably being doped up on painkillers - manages to subdue him (one of myriad implausible plot devices). Gordon invites Andy to stay with him while they figure things out. It’s very odd behavior: Andy is hurt and confused. In fact, Laura tells her daughter that she needs to move out and get her own place. But no this tragic and terrifying event is merely a plot device.Īfter Laura returns from the hospital with her hand repaired, getting a ride from her ex-husband and Andy’s stepfather Gordon (Omari Hardwick), she rebuffs Andy’s attempts to help her. The reasonable assumption at this point is that the series’s dramatic arc will deal with this mass shooting, including the healing and recovery that follows such a horrific trauma. Video from the crime goes viral on social media and Andy is horrified by all those who are calling her a coward. In the resulting chaos, Andy learns that the shooter saw her in uniform and was hoping that his actions would end in a suicide-by-cop finale. He then stabs her in the hand and she uses the knife to slit his throat. Laura leaps up to try and reason with the shooter and she manages to get his gun away for a moment. In the first few minutes there’s a high octane scene between Laura and Andy when a mass shooting unfolds in a diner where they’re having lunch to celebrate Andy’s 30 th birthday. If that’s not enough exposition to start off with, wait a bit. Her frustrated mother encourages her to go back to school. ![]() Andy lives in a little shed in the backyard, rides her bike to and from work, and seems content and unambitious. We learn that she moved back to Belle Isle (a dreamy little island enclave near Savannah) to help her mother, a recent breast cancer survivor, through chemotherapy. Collette plays Laura Oliver, a speech therapist who works with war veterans Bella Heathcote (a fellow Australian actress) is Andy, her somewhat aimless daughter who is employed as an emergency phone dispatcher for the police department. Starring the always excellent Toni Collette ( Hereditary), the show is set in various US locations, including Georgia and San Francisco, but filmed entirely in Australia. There seems to be a little too much going on in Pieces of Her, the new limited Netflix series based on the novel by Karin Slaughter. ![]() Toni Collette and Omari Hardwick in a scene from Pieces of Her, streaming on Netflix. This Netflix thriller takes some interesting twists and turns as it moves along its absurd way.
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