Carl Deuker -- Books, Movies, TV

 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.

 Agatha writing about Nile.  Nile's wife "befriending" Agatha, visiting A's ex-wife at her studio/gallery.  Lots of different agendas.  Abbott, the FBI guy, still interested.  Body of teenager who supposedly drowned himself still not found, nor has the body of Nile's first wife been found.  Pretty good.

 Nicole has seemingly recovered from her mental illness; Dick is a mess,  alcoholic and depressed by his lack of anything close to the career he anticipated. Too much money . . . which also makes it hard for me to sympathize with the guy.  Glamorous and weak.  I'll be glad to be done with it.