“Echoes” opens with Gina’s disappearance, sending Leni home to figure out what happened to her sister. The two had a daughter named Mattie (Gable Swanlund), and Leni seems well-liked in her rural community while her identical twin enjoys the high life in Hollywood. Leni stayed back in Virginia and married her high school sweetheart Jack ( Matt Bomer). ![]() ![]() Gina is in Los Angeles with her therapist husband Charlie ( Daniel Sunjata, tragically miscast), and she’s carved out a successful writing career. Monaghan plays twins Leni and Gina, living very different city/country lives when the show opens. By the end, it’s impossible to care about any of these people or what has happened to them, other than to hope the talented cast puts it behind them quickly. And then, almost as if the writers know they need to pull the reins on this runaway horse, the show unfolds the most expository episode of TV I’ve seen in years, explaining it all in the fifth chapter, before limping along for two more. ![]() And then it makes the opposite mistake, over-explaining everything about its story through dull flashbacks and interrogation scenes. For four episodes, “Echoes” defiantly makes almost no sense, and not just in a traditional thriller/mystery nature but because of shallow writing and choppy editing. Sadly, the potential of “Echoes” starts to drain before the premiere is even over as it gets goofier and goofier in a way that’s not entertaining but frustrating.
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