Of course, at some point in the credits, Reese Witherspoon shows up as a producer. Her book club is a force in the USA, films like “Gone Girl” or “Wild” are real box office hits and the successful series she has produced (including Big Little Lies, “Little Fires Everywhere”) are almost a genre of their own, which now also includes “The Girl In The Water” on AppleTV+.
Veronica West’s “Girl” series has a lot to do with the wrong-track mystery of the “Gone Girl” and “Girl On A Train” brands, but it’s not called that in the original. “The Girl In The Water” is only intended to give German viewers an idea of the content, while in the original “Surface” suggests ambiguity à la “still waters are deep”.
Because if the series, which is prominently cast with Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“The Morning Show”, “Loki”), wants to be something very obvious and with a lot of emphasis, then it’s ambiguous. Because the protagonist Sophie was literally torn from under the feet. After an alleged suicide attempt, she is pulled out of the water with no memory of her past life and therefore has to struggle with her existence as the wife of a very wealthy investment banker (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).
Something is always kept from her, former friends behave strangely and the therapist doesn’t get very far in coming to terms with the trauma she has suffered. Undercover policeman Baden (Stephan James) promises enlightenment, who urgently warns her about her husband, questions her attempted suicide and also reveals himself to be a rival from happier times. In front of a posher San Francisco backdrop, Sophie will soon no longer be able to trust anyone – not even herself.
Slightly tough journey of self-discovery
At least in the first three of a total of eight episodes, it still manages to keep the suspense up and the viewer engaged with cliffhangers and wrong leads. At some point very soon, however, the mystery candy will be sucked and you will have had enough of Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the chic apartments and the streets of San Francisco.
Then you get the impression that a maximum of six episodes would have been enough to go through all possible perpetrator-victim combinations. From the looks of it, not even eight do. Ultimately, The Girl In The Water feels more like the start of a much larger journey of self-discovery.
The first three episodes from 29.07. on AppleTV+, new episodes every Friday.
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