It’s unclear why Owen has left, but the company he worked for is under investigation, and the police are very interested in speaking to Owen. Then Owen suddenly and inexplicably disappears, leaving Hannah only a note, “Take care of her.” There’s tension between Hannah and Bailey, but it’s of the normal variety. Jennifer Garner stars as Hannah Hall, the relatively new wife to Owen Michaels (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and the step-mom to Bailey (Angourie Rice), a surly teen who is not fond of her step-mother in the ways that most teens aren’t fond of their new step-parents. Instead of a recipe and ingredients, it’s a premade meal that merely needs warming up. It has that rote, airless quality that overly faithful adaptations often do, where the source material serves as an instruction manual rather than as inspiration. It might very well be a case of the series being too faithful to the novel. But the adaptation of The Last Thing He Told Me starring Jennifer Garner is weak and listless. My recollections of Laura Dave’s novel The Last Thing He Told Me are faint enough that I don’t remember how the story plays out, but strong enough that everything I watch in Apple TV+’s adaption of it instantly reminds me of the equivalent scene in the book.
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