Netflix’s ‘Secrets We Keep’ Ending Was Not Great

I’ve reported that Netflix’s new mystery series, Secrets We Keep, has put up an impressive 100% critic score so far. I started the show and found it intriguing, but when I reached the end of its six-episode arc, I found the story ultimately lacking in the end. Spoilers follow.

The problem with Secrets We Keep is that it gives you very obvious clues about who the perpetrator is, and as it turns out, it was not a red herring at all. The show was practically shouting at you what happened.

During the course of the show, we see the dead-eyed Oscar, son of Katarina and Rasmus, repeatedly taking creepshot videos of everyone from the girls at his school to his neighbors having sex with a literal drone cam.

It seemed way too obvious that the perpetrators were either of the men, Rasmus or Mike, and Oscar would be the “twist” ending as the real villain. And…he was. That was it, he was the one who assaulted Ruby and got her pregnant. Not exactly a mind-blowing revelation since it was pretty clearly telegraphed from episode 1.

The second “twist” attempts to be a hint that his mother, Katarina, not only knew about the assault the whole time but likely had gone so far as to cover it up by murdering Ruby outright before she could make a claim.

But the whole point of the series is that Oscar can get away with this as there is no actual evidence. Katarina destroyed the video (and presumably it was deleted from Oscar’s phone) and he was going to get the “rich kid doesn’t have consequences” ending where even the police say that these cases rarely go anywhere even with testimony from a victim.

There’s also this idea that Ruby killed herself by what, walking into a lake? Did she just swim out there and drown? There was clearly no evidence she tied anything to her or anything like this. It also just seems ludicrous that Katarina would wait an hour or so and go murder Ruby to protect her son. We also know that Ruby wasn’t even reporting this, she was simply trying to find a different family.

I guess the idea is that Katarina is so unhinged that she could be this reactionary, but the entire ending seems muddled and the whole series broadcasting Oscar as the perpetrator wasn’t well done.

If you’re reading this, I suppose you already watched the show. Let me know what you think in the comments, but no, I don’t believe this is a 100% level series.

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