Those who actually like this mess must be easily entertained. How else could one explain why somebody would praise it? Yes, it holds one's interest, but so does a train wreck. Half-way through, I kept hoping they'd all disappear. As others have stated, none of the screwed-up characters, especially the incessantly annoying and bratty children (who reminded me of the children in The Staircase with Colin Firth) are likable; the mother is a clueless and flaky moron; and Sam Neill's character needs a good beating. I'm trying (hard) to think of one redeeming character in this series and I can't. There's bad acting, terrible writing, and a strange-looking lesbian who really should shave her armpits. And the detectives are such bad actors that they must have been hired from a Lifetime movie. (One laugh-out-loud scene -- it's so bad it's hilarious -- is the blonde son's reaction when they're at the morgue to see if a body that was found is his mother's and his sister and father walk out of the viewing room. Be sure to look at his expression as he holds his head Home Alone style. It's just one example of the bad acting found throughout.)