The one hundred twelfth TV show: #342 Widows
It's interesting how again, there's a split between seasons here on how good the show is. The first season of Widows is excellent. After their husbands die in a heist, three widows (and a fourth companion) decide to replicate the heist to gain the money their husbands would have gotten, while holding off others who are after the same plans for the heist. It's an interesting drama, both for the way the women interact and how they pull off the heist - a few times getting closer to discovery, but usually getting away - the way they manage to weave their way through, sometimes using their supposed innocence to make it out, works incredibly well. It was an incredibly engaging season.
The second season abandons that in favour of a revenge story. It takes a while to start this in the first place, it never works quite as consistently. It's often not as compelling, and it's mostly the third and final episodes that deliver the best moments. In between, it can spin its wheels a bit. Second, and more frustrating, is how some of the characters develop. Some of them haven't grown, while I feel like some of the widows go back in their growth, losing the strength they've shown in the first season. It revolves around Dolly, played by Ann Mitchell, who delivers a stellar performance where she is capable, not always likeable but works as a strong core performer around which everything revolves. Her story dominates in the second season, to the detriment of others, but the story itself works. We didn't watch the third season, released about a decade later, for that reason, but the first season is more than worth it.