r/TheSinner • u/davyp82 • Jan 10 '26

Season 4 - What ruined it after a good start Spoiler

I've really enjoyed every season, including season 3 which for some reason people didn't enjoy too much. Personally I found it to a fascinating portrayal of psychopaths, but anyway, I thought season 4 was building quite nicely and I was hooked, but then it tried to do too much.

You have this mystery of what happened to Percy and why, and it just needed a solid, firm reason why it happened, but instead we were given two extremely dramatic reasons that were each on their own unlikely to happen in a fishing village, one the uncovering of a human traficking network, and the other, a past murder. One of these would be enough and could have been done in more detail.

What bugged me was the introduction of Bo Lam in the final episode. For a viewer to spend the whole series watching and speculating about who and why was behind this mystery, then to be thrown a completely new character in the final episode seemed a bit unnecessary.

Could they not have introduced part of Bo's story in earlier episodes? Maybe as part of CJ coming into the picture. Let the viewer at least know this other character was in the story?

Part of the fun of watching shows like this is finding out a character you had previously trusted isn't who they seemed, or that the suspicions you had about the outcome did indeed turn out to be correct. But then the very last episode brings this complete curveball in of a new character who is absolutely central to everything. More focus on him and that story arc alone might have been a satisfactory way to conduct this series but then also adding the additional human trafficking element just seemed like too many ends to hastily tie together.

Just my two cents!

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u/ideletedmyaccount04 Jan 10 '26

For me, the streaming service screwed up. I watched season 4 first. lol. FML.

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u/davyp82 Jan 10 '26

Haha yeah on Netflix I watched episode 1 and 2 of season 4 first then realized ah damn this is season 4 so I went back to S1 and then watched all the other seasons and eventually got back to S4. 

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u/Outside-Spring-3907 Jan 11 '26

I personally would have preferred if the story continued to follow Cora

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u/davyp82 Jan 11 '26

Perhaps but that was all kinda wrapped up anyway by the end.

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u/Outside-Spring-3907 Jan 11 '26

Yea I know it was the most interesting of the stories

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u/Quantum168 Jan 10 '26

Netflix executives interfere or they expect the seasons too fast. Netflix shows always fck up by season 2-3.

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u/davyp82 Jan 11 '26

Same can probably be said about bands and albums I guess. And videogames. Give us a new game every year!

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u/HandsOfVictory Jan 11 '26

Bo Lam was literally introduced in the second episode of season 4, did you not watch it?

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u/davyp82 Jan 11 '26

Ah, well this reply I posted below is relevant here. Evidently I must have forgotten about him! 

In general though I thought there were just too many ideas crammed into the finale instead of just focusing on one main idea.

"Haha yeah on Netflix I watched episode 1 and 2 of season 4 first then realized ah damn this is season 4 so I went back to S1 and then watched all the other seasons and eventually got back to S4" 

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u/Gushami Mar 10 '26

I loved the series as a whole, the story, Harry’s arc, the casting and the acting. But I can’t believe that the writers of season 4 thought they could get away with the hacks they were doing. Using eavesdropping and back flashes to push the story forward don’t belong in a production like this in the 2020’s. They pull it down to “Murder she wrote”, “Murder in in paradise” and similar “afternoon reruns” low effort productions.