The second episode is still setting the scene between the two main characters. Maddie has made it away from her husband. Even if it is a crummy apartment in a sketchy part of town.
Maddie needs money from Milton. He is still angry that she has left him. A desperate Maddie stages an burglary for the insurance money.
Officer Platt arrives and seems sceptical about the burglary story and that Maddie has dirt in her hands, as she stashed the jewellery in the plant pot.
Still the cop seems to feel sorry for her. A guy in a pet shop could be the likely suspect, the one who bathes with the fishes in a gas mask.
There are no breaks for Cleo. She cannot work for Myrtle Summer's campaign as she does work for numbers game racketter Mr Gordon.
Now she has to go all in with Gordon and ends up in peril because of it too prove her loyalty to him.
There is no doubt the pacing is slow, there are some good visual imagery. The young man in the bath, the patrons dancing in the club. The opening flashback scene where Maddie sees a painting of a lady in the lake.