Keith and I binged all 8 episodes of 56 Days on Prime Video over the weekend.
On the plus side, the storytelling was gripping. We wanted to watch more episodes on Saturday, bedtime be damned, but there were enough episodes remaining to convince our practical side to wait. The key driver of tension is not actually whodunnit so much as... who died? Sooo many red herrings, twists and reveals in that department.
I also liked the way the story follows the lives of both the suspects and the investigators. Basically, not a single character in the story had the moral high ground. Everyone was flawed. But some characters weren't just flawed -- they were malicious. Karma is a bitch, though.
Now for the negatives. The story centers around a new relationship between Oliver and Ciara. That relationship is ultimately the reason for the mystery murder. The two characters keep secrets from each other, one of which is that the "relationship" was planned in advance. But the characters end up legitimately falling in love with each other.
Supposedly.
I didn't see it, or at least, not enough. I felt like the development of the relationship -- emotionally -- was pre-empted to make way for eroticism, which seemed like a primary goal of the producers. The erotic scenes were just that - erotic - and did little to drive the plot or develop the characters or their relationship.
It's also possible that the relationship was difficult to convey without knowing all the facts about the characters. The show is a mystery first and foremost, so we were uninformed about certain things in the histories of these characters, which, had I known while watching the relationship blossom, might have better convinced me.
Overall, I'd probably give the series a 7/10.
Below are my goals for this week.
Literarily,
Michelle Goals for 3/2/26 - 3/9/26
Work Goals Review work tasks list 3x per week- Pending Website Updates - Pending
Writing Goals One review per day Mon-Thu - Pending Add content to MichelleTuesday.com/author - Pending Min 30 min/week on current novel - Pending One short story for "The Bradbury" - Pending One themed blog post - See above. Current assignment for "26 Paychecks " - In progress. Current assignment for "The Sprawling Ink Society" - TBD
, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
