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Okay, she's playing with expectations, and she got me. Polly--who looked like a victim--is now looking more like a film noir spider.  She's turned on by violence, uses sex to manipulate men, and has a past.  A first husband, an escape from him, a feeling that she has repeated earlier errors.

Greg, her husband, hires a PI (female) who tracks her down.  Greg then tries to force her to come back to her daughter (he's freaked out by the possibility that HE might have to raise the child).  He actually pulls a gun on her, but that ends up with Bosk breaking his arm.

Bosk is the character I thought was the bad guy.  Instead, his role is murky.  He's definitely following her, but he is also falling under her spell. What does he want?  What does she want?

I like it.  Reminds me a bit of Gone Girl, with the girl not being gon

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