EPISODE
SEASON
Sacred Lies - Season 1
Driving by her deep will of proving her innocence, Minnow Bly, a little youngster without any hands, who lives around 12 years in a cult and subsequent to getting away from them, she has been sent to juvenile detention for the accusation of knowing the killer of her cult leader.
10 November 1972, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
17 April 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 April 1976, Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
29 March 1978, Lansing, Michigan, USA
27 June 1989, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
August 16, 2019
Sacred Lies is a good, multilayered drama, although the vaguely supernatural quality to Minnow's past is milked a bit too hard.
July 30, 2018
After only two episodes in a 10-episode first season, there's always a chance for improvement -- especially with such strong surrounding components -- but so many opportunities have been wasted in just two episodes to inspire much prolonged hope.
July 23, 2018
With episodes running at an economical half-hour, Sacred Lies maintains a solid enough balance between withholding answers and laying groundwork for the mysteries ahead.
July 27, 2018
If this isn't the YA you thought you knew, well, I invite you to head down to your local public library, because Oakes is no outlier.
