Unveiling Dark Secrets: A Riveting Dive into the Twisted World of American Midnight
That’s sort of what the Peter situation feels like. It’s a little coincidental that their family is reeling – they’ve fallen apart. And then these serial killings start. Alissa needs an FBI agent. Oh, what do you know? Her husband who she just broke up with is an FBI agent! You could definitely argue that that’s too “small world.”
However, you can make this work if you treat the broken family dynamic authentically. If you make choices between them that feel like they could happen in the world. If, however, you “movie logic” your way through those choices (the characters act like they know they’re in a movie and talk about things or wrap things up in an artificial way), then the movie falls apart. And I thought McIntyre was pretty authentic in the way he treated this family so it ended up working.