A young mother tries to find out what's causing her to have violent tendencies. A young mother kills in a fit of inexpiable rage a seemingly stranger. An inquisitive detective obsesses over the case, attempting to get to the bottom of the true motive behind the act.

Critics Reviews for The Sinner – Season One

“Cora's is a peaceful, predictable existence, if a suffocating one: It's like Everybody Loves Raymond moved to upstate New York – minus the jokes, plus what seems like serious, untreated depression on its protagonist's par­t.” – Molly Fitzpatrick Entertainment We­ekly

“[The early episodes are] sufficiently intriguing and stylish to make the wait worthwhile, as long as you accept the possibility of disappointment when all the secrets are revealed.” – Mike Hale New York Times

“The series is over-plotted, but not fatally so. Regardless of mini-howlers here and there, we're as curious as Ambrose to know who Cora really is and what happened to her in the past that went off like a grenade on a sunny day at the beach.” – David Wiegand San Francisco Chronicles