“Seven Seconds” comes from Veena Sud, whose last series, “The Killing,” was at its best a mournful look at murder’s toll on the survivors, the accused and the investigators. (Just as “The Killing” was based on a Danish series, “Seven Seconds” is based on the Russian film “The Major.”) But in its initial case, which stretched beyond the first season, “The Killing” became a grim slog of red herrings and implausible twists. But “Seven Seconds” has ambitions far beyond telling a procedural story, and that’s where it becomes the most dour and heavy-handed. “Seven Seconds” suggests that there’s plenty of such guilt to go around, well beyond the suspects in the case. I figured I’d give her a break.”Ultimately, that’s what “Seven Seconds,” however imperfectly, is about: who gets a break and who gets broken.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2018 14:03 UTC