'The Resort' is a fun vacation thriller with a twist around every corner, writes judyberman
in Siara’s canon. It doesn’t hang together quite as well as those titles, but it does still make for a fun summer binge.The caper takes off when Emma, the more restless of the two, crashes her ATV during an expedition into the jungle and lands next to an old, broken flip phone. Something compels her to track down a working model that will read its SIM card.
As he and Emma start digging, flashbacks flesh out Sam and Violet’s story. On the plane to Mexico for a family vacation, Sam sneaks a look at his napping girlfriend’s text messages and discovers she’s sleeping with a professor. Violet and her father , meanwhile, have come to mark the first anniversary of her mom’s untimely death. A chance meeting that begins with a skateboarding Sam slamming his head into a palm tree and Violet administering questionable first aid soon escalates into a romance.
At times, the story’s incomplete foundation creaks under the weight of so much activity and so many concepts. Questions that seem important go unanswered. Long-awaited insight into characters’ pasts too often comes across as generic groundwork for a trauma plot, which takes away from the overall emotional impact. And the show can be a bit too meta for its own good. “This isn’t the end,” a character declares in episode 4. “The second half is a heartbreaker.
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