Don't waste your time. Slow. Boring. Depressing. Slow. Weird. Dark. Slow.
The majority of this show is watching the characters (usually the main character who is drinking 95% of the time, listening to music, and having dark, random flashbacks) drive around this rough, weird town visiting either a bar, or the woods, or different people's houses to talk to them. That's basically it.
The characters just stare at each other from across the way for a majority of it as well.
I had to make myself finish this and half the time I wasn't in the mood to be depressed again. Hardly any of the characters are likeable. It was just terrible. I would often wonder where this story was going and when it would finally get there. The ending was a bit of a shock, but also not really..my mom asked me who I thought the killer was before we watched the finale and I said the sister. Low and behold. She was just too creepy and sociopathic for a normal teenager. And the town only suspecting those two people and never anyone else? It was obvious it wasn't either one of them!
-The storyline about the mother at the end seemed so random, having nothing to do with the rest of the episodes yet that's what most of the ending was about.
-There were a lot of unanswered questions that they didn't explain. Example: what that shed was for?
-What was with the teenage girls always roller skating around town like it was the 70s? Who does that anymore?
It was just an awful show and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I wish I could get those 8+ hours of my life back. You couldn't pay me to watch that again.
I never read the book, but I usually like Amy Adams and I liked Gone Girl a lot so I was highly disappointed.