EPISODE
SEASON
Falsely accused of a murder she didn't commit, Minnow Bly, a youthful savvy young girl without hands, who lives for a long time in a cult and battles against being sent to juvenile detention for the accusation of knowing the killer of the cult leader, the thing that challenges her, as she does her best to prove her innocence.
9 December 1966, Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
22 April 1943, Richmond, Virginia, USA
28 November 1976, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
28 April 1976, Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
26 November 1972, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
21 January 1994, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
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.
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.
