Janelle Monáe replaces Julia Roberts as the show’s lead, and takes on a similar sort of dual role, as the past and present/ before-and-after version of herself. Monáe confidently embodies the disparate versions of her character, Jaqueline, who has no memory of who she is. She plays cool, aggressively competent, and perturbed-uncertain with equal aplomb, and her performance intrigues even when the story sometimes does not.
I feel the need to include the caveat that I am often ahead of a story, and that mysteries very rarely play out for me how they are expected to for the audience at large. I am not unable to be surprised, it is just… not a common occurrence, especially in the realm of television where even the most creative, out-of-the-box filmmakers habitually recreate auditory and visual schemes that, to someone who watches TV as much as I do, act as neon signs that project the reveals as clearly as if they had been said plainly.
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