But while Ten Days in the Valley may be answering a “big question” in Episode 3, the show has already laid out a foundation full of questionable characters and relationships that can be mined for even more shock-laden drama in the future.
Viewers might consider the series to be all about a kidnapping case, but it’s as much about Kyra Sedgwick’s complicated TV creator Jane Sadler as it is about her missing daughter.
It’s no secret that there have been many TV series over the years whose central storylines were completely derailed when a big piece of the puzzle was revealed too early, without enough narrative hooks to keep the story interesting.