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We start off here with an interview with a murderer. 587 True or False questions to determine whether or not the guy is a liar or not. And she, Mrs. Bouchard goes to court to prove this guy is sane, but upon further review, she gets attacked by the suspect while saying the Lords Prayer. Nice.

And then David Acosta, comes to Kristen's home He explains that he works for the Catholic Church. Acosta offers her a job . Since she recently lost her paying job as an expert witness, she is reluctant, but she needs work!!!

+1 Star for this opening.....

Starting case. Orson? Haha . Kristen does her research. And while she's googling info at her home on Acosta, she hears a noise. And then she sees a figure while she's in bed. Asleep? Or Awake? Ooo thats a nice looking DEMON there , Kristen!!!! Ahh Mom is screaming!! The kids come running in!! LOL, fresh urine in the corner!!! Could a dream do that?? Oh it's water, nevermind.

She goes and sees a psychiatrist. She gets some meds.

Oh I like Aasif Mandvi's character. He's another doubter.

Ruh roh, after another day of cases, Kristen is back at home asleep. Here is George the Demon again. Oh nice. I like the setup she did with the sign on the ceiling.

+1 STar for that

Okay so Larue is the murder suspect they are investigating in jail Kristen suspects that someone got hold of her psychiatrists case files on her, and is using that information to scare the bejesus out of her.

Haha, Michael Emerson as Dr. Townsend. I like it. Townsend is obviously going to be a player for the bad guys in this.

+1 Star for Dr. Townsend setting up Kirsten with Larue.

Kirsten comes up with evidence on Larue that prove he's been in league with Dr. Townsend to come up with an insanity defense. She turns it over to the prosecutor who fired her. Case over.

Pretty good first ep. 8/10

I am only commenting about that. It was very good. We were properly introduced to the backgrounds of the main characters. The woman has led a very busy life! She was a big time mountain climber. She was back loaded with plenty of debt. Her husband, another climber is off traipsing around the globe, leaving her to raise 4 young girls. She is a lapsed Catholic. She actually revealed to her psychologist that she wishes her daughters were gone. This quite a reveal for a first episode. She has a mother who seems to be dressing way out of her age category. The main is smart, does her research. Everything in the first episode had a plausible "earthly" explanation.The lead has one flaw to me. Her intensive background and thought processes seem quite unbelievable for someone as young as she seems. I'm thinking what is she doing as a mother of four girls, with a deadbeat living his dreams husband and where did she find time to amass her education? She doesn't seem stupid enough to have gotten herself into this mess. I think they could have reduced the number of children she has.

We're introduced to the male main. He was a world traveler. In his travels he witnessed something that altered the course of his life. He has a main adversary. He and this adversary have a history that seems to very defined. He thoroughly believes.

All of this seems to mirror The X-files with slight alterations. There are 3 members of the investigative team. Two are disbelievers, one is not. The third character really knows his stuff. He figures out plausible explanations/ answers to mysterious things well. I feel very quickly they'll have to show stuff that defies explanation or people will start referring to this show as "debunking evil". This guy also seems to have a wealth of technical knowledge to have ended up as a church handyman. I found myself wondering if they should ask him question number 1!

The groundwork for several running plot lines were set up during this episode. Her husband going around leaving her to raise a family by herself physically and fincially. This Machiavellian adversary. Everybodies personal quirks and faults. All and all it was a very good, well thought out intro. The problem with a lot of shows is they start out very well, and then kind of fizzle out.

Great characters that viewers can easily relate to.

The scene where George gets on. Katja's bed had some flaws ;

1) She had taped a sign on the ceiling that would be blurry if she was dreaming. In the scene , it was blurry, but she WAS'NT dreaming.

2) She saw George cut off her finger, but how could he fake that?

Other inconsistencies include;

1) How did Townsend break into the psychiatrist's file cabinet?

2) why did the receptionist leave Townsend alone in the filing room?

3) Why did the prison guards allow Katharine to riffle through the visitor logs?

4) Why would the Catholic Church spend money on a project like this and have a seminary student run it along with the church handyman?

5) How does a father run off to climb mountains when ha has four adorable daughters growing up without him?

I'm sure you will notice other anomalies, but if you can suspend belief, it is a really entertaining pilot . With four seasons, I'm hoping all the episodes are as good.

Pacing in this episode is WAY too quick. 10 minutes in the lead character has already interviewed the killer, said he couldn't be trusted, re-examined him, said she wasn't Catholic "anymore", read a religious passage (IMMEDIATELY after saying she wasn't Catholic) to see if the killer would react aggressively, said she needed more time to think, was threatened by her (for lack of a better word) "boss", stood up to him in front of the judge just 15 seconds later; we found out that her husband is a Mountain Guide and that her mother is against him and she is being threatened to pay back her loan or she'll be kicked out of the house.

That is WAY TOO MUCH to digest in 10 minutes. Let these things BREATHE. We are not seeing character development, we are seeing a character that is ALREADY developed. She should've had some time (due to the absurdity of the claim) between being asked if the killer was possessed and actually checking. There should've been time between her job being threatened by her "boss" and standing up to him.

The pacing of the first episode is ridiculously quick.