It’s impossible to talk about “Rellik,” the new detective series from Cinemax, without diving into how it’s told.
Moving backwards from the end of a serial killer investigation and told in reverse order, there’s an immediate sense that this is not like other shows.
Even unlike “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” which kept entire episodes moving forward as it gradually worked its way back through a murder-filled timeline, “Rellik” is a sequence of scenes and interactions that hop back in time in a half-dozen ways every chapter.The one benefit that this structure offers “Rellik” is the ability to put the audience in a detective’s mindset more explicitly than any other detective show.
As Dci Gabriel Markham (Richard Dormer) wades through the oppressively dark waters of a string of murders and acid attacks, “Rellik” leaves it to the viewer to hunt for clues
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