Full Circle

A kidnapping brings together people who do not initially understand how their lives intersect. Full Circle follows the confusion and consequences rather than making the crime a clean contest between a mastermind and an investigator.

Steven Soderbergh directs, with Claire Danes and CCH Pounder among the ensemble. Much of the tension comes from unequal knowledge: a decision can look sensible to the person making it and disastrous once another part of the situation becomes visible.

The series expects attention. It introduces several interests and lets their connections emerge without continually stopping to explain them. That can be involving, although viewers after a direct rescue thriller may find the route unnecessarily complicated.

The contained six-part format suits a story built from accumulating mistakes. The attraction is watching the separate pressures begin to affect each other, with performances that do not need to announce every change in feeling. Your Honor offers another crime drama in which protecting a family creates further danger; Full Circle distributes that danger across a wider set of people.