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Unfortunately, “Ann Arbor” gives way to “Surrender,” the final episode of the season, where the accumulated plot creaks back to somnambulant life, especially as it highlights the ham ...
- "It’s hard being alive, isn’t it?"
- Verdict
By Joey Esposito
Posted: Oct 7, 2013 3:00 am
Spoilers for the episode follow.
Low Winter Sun’s final two episodes aired as two-hour finale event, so we’re reviewing it as such. As suspected, there was a great deal of payoff for things that had been seeded earlier on in the series. Some of it was worth the wait and some of it was still pointless, but like or not, I respect the show’s decision to play the long game.
After the cliffhanger of the last episode, it was jarring to catch up with Agnew in such a state of distress as he freaked out trying to find an easy way out of his problems. In the space of 45 minutes, he goes from normal to trying to flee the country to suicide to normal again. Though I’ve never been a dirty cop with blood on his hands that’s in love with a dead prostitute, Agnew’s extremes were hard to believe. That said, I enjoyed his attempts to make things right with the families of victims that the DPD had lied to, even if all of that good will would be gone by the finale’s end.
The stuff with Agnew’s ex-wife was really melodramatic, but it speaks to the performances of the actors that I believed they had a long and hard history together despite the fact that Agnew had only mentioned he was married once in the show up to that point, and only as an off-hand comment.
In the end the finale to Low Winter Sun, and the show as a whole, was a disappointment. Occasionally brushing good TV, it was simply too concerned with planting plot devices and coming up with terrible situations that it forgot to develop memorable characters. The final two episodes, while they do bring everything together in meticulous fashion, fa...
Oct 7, 2013 · But ultimately "Ann Arbor; Surrender" capped off an okay season with a solid ending, while pulling up some season two possibilities. The first half was far more engaging, as Frank Agnew set...
Low Winter Sun (2013) Frank contemplates running from his troubles and finds help in the unlikeliest of places in the two-hour season finale of 'Low Winter Sun': 'Ann Arbor/Surrender.'.
Oct 7, 2013 · AFTERBUZZ TV -- Low Winter Sun edition, is a weekly "after show" for fans of AMC's Low Winter Sun. In this show, host Matt Lieberman breaks down the episode ...
"Surrender" is the tenth episode and final episode of the first season of Low Winter Sun. Mark Strong as Frank Agnew Lennie James as Joe Geddes James Ransone as Damon Callis Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Charles Dawson Sprague Grayden as Maya Callis Athena Karkanis as Dani Khalil Billy Lush as Nick...
