Carl Deuker -- Books, Movies, TV

 Mickey with Maggie ex-wife take on Dana.  Dead body in M. trunk. M. threatened the guy.  Somehow a biodiesel deal is involved.  M. ex-girlfriend chef from another book testifies against him for vengeance.  Maggie shoots her down with letters vowing vengeance that she sent.  Former intern testifies against poor M too. She's shot down . . . no job, bitter, out to get him. Cisco serves subpoena on a guy who immediately is murdered . . . biodiesel again. 

 Dull, so far.  Mickey is up for murder (dead body in trunk) and has clearly been set up by somebody.  Instead of getting into the investigation, we have some interesting court battles and lots of less than funny comic interludes.  A little Lorna/Maggie interaction; Mickey meets Maggie's new boyfriend.  Hopefully it will improve

 Mickey in prison for murder. Dead body found in his trunk . . . set up?  Decent, not great start.  

 Claire Danes/Matthew Rhys Excellent acting throughout.  The killer is the suspected killer from scene one . . . a nice change.  Danes (Agatha) has blamed the death of her son in a car accident on the other driver (teenager, maybe drinking) but we learn she was a distracted driver definitely to blame as well. Ending, unfortunately, was ho-hum.  Nile's (Rhys) second wife becomes suspicious that he is the killer, confronts him.  They argue . . . he screams YES, I KILLED HER. Ah, but she has turned on the record feature of her iPhone and he's cooked.  He gets murdered in prison, just to satisfy viewer that justice has been served. Danes writes her book and presumably it's a huge success. Last scene is her at a reading crying her heart out. All in all, very good.  Too bad the ending was so conventional.

 Nile's wife, Madison, is the one who'd been feeding info to the FBI agent whom Nile kills.  Likely the Nile is murderer of Madison, but since that seems so likely it might be wrong.  Agatha in danger -- Nile has read her chapters, knows she thinks he is guilty.  Nina, Nile's second wife, might also be on the chopping block. Solid

 Nile kills Abbott, the FBI agent who has been hounding him.  It seems that the boy who ran over Agatha's son is still alive, perhaps being tortured.  The Jarvis Yards project is in danger.  AOC modeled character drumming up protestors.  Nile's wife no longer seems like a partner in crime, just turned on by a little  s & m.  Surprising scene where Agatha spills her heart to her lesbian lover, asking to be let back into her life, and Ashley says--good luck with your life.