A reimagining of the iconic 1987 film Fatal Attraction has appeared to Paramount+.
We meet Dan (Joshua Jackson), who is battling for his life to establish his innocence while
striving to rebuild his connection with his daughter.
The pilot is a lot to unpack.
Fatal Attraction Season 1 Episode 1 Recap The programme starts with Dan Gallagher entering
a courtroom with a panel of judges outlining the allegations against him, including murder,
in what looks to be a parole hearing.
We hear him speak about empathy and forgiveness during his time in jail.
We encounter Ellen, his daughter, who is chatting to her therapist.
She notes that her father could be eligible for parole, but her therapist claims she informed
her that her father was deceased.
We rewind to see Dan doing his day-to-day job and heading home to his wife and children.
He apologizes for how he acted toward his wife and smoothes things with his charm.
They chat about his receiving the job as the next Judge, which she thinks he should not
take, but he wants it.
In the courtroom, there is nobody better at the game than Dan.
We watch him wheeling, dealing, and soothing individuals within the courthouse.
Does Dan get the job as the Judge?
It’s his birthday, and his wife throws Josh a mini birthday party that culminates with
him performing karaoke.
He shows up late to work the next day, but his assistant informs him the 12th floor has
phoned, and he is delighted.
However, he is informed that he isn’t getting the Judge job.
The job went to Gus, who obtained the job because his dad purchased the position for
him.
A clearly upset Dan is listening to one of his pals talk about the job and how he has
to worry more about the pity that he will receive for not obtaining the job.
He heads to a retirement celebration of one of his co-workers.
Dan becomes close to Alex Forrest, who works at the criminal court building.
She’s the first one to ask him how he is throughout the night party.
The two wind up back at the offices, where we observe the two flirting on an elevator.
They are on the point of kissing until they are interrupted by someone having to get on
the elevator.
What happened to Dan on his way home from the office?
After the almost-kissing event on the elevator, Dan heads home.
While he is jamming in the car, singing along to some tunes, something pops up on his windshield,
causing him to crash and hit a pole.
Of course, Dan is under the influence and takes up the phone to contact someone who
instructs him to start walking home and that he would take care of everything.
Upon coming home, he tells his wife what happened and mentions how he didn’t get the job.
His wife begins to worry what is going to happen with his career.
The next day, he arrives at the workplace, and Mike has taken care of Dan’s automobile.
We return to present-day Ellen, asking her mother if she cares if she sees her father.
Beth tells her it is up to her.
Dan comes inside a restaurant and greets Ellen.
The two engage some small chat leading to him informing her he didn’t kill that woman.
She questions him about what he stated during his parole hearing, but he claims he has to
get out and establish his innocence.
EPISODE 2 The episode opens with Dan and Alex messing
it up over dinner.
One of the fellow attornies comes over to question him why he is breaking his balls
on a case.
Upon his departing, Alex writes him a letter indicating she went to another bar.
The two continue to peel aside more layers of each other.
Their supper unexpectedly ends with sprinklers going off in the restaurant, leading them
to walk back to her apartment.
Although he tries to leave, he quickly goes back to Alex’s place, where they have sex.
With Beth out of town, this romance continues with the two travelling to the beach only
to return to her apartment for even more of a wonderful time.
After a weekend of excitement, Beth and Ellen are back in town after their trip.
Present day, Ellen is chatting to her therapist about her connection with her father.
She is unclear how to feel or what to do with her connection.
How does Dan convince Alex to tell the truth?
Alex’s games suddenly turn against her since he emphasises there is no going back once
they step through those doors.
The police are called to them, indicating that if there are or aren’t any drugs in
her system, either way, she will lose her job.
He called her bluff, and she swiftly disclosed she just wanted to go home.
What happened to Ellen?
Ellen had been on her dad’s side of town, hanging around for him.
While she starts to walk down the street and is listening to a podcast, she is hit by someone
riding on a scooter.
Her dad isn’t too far off in the distance and sees what occurred and soothes her, which
creates this enormous smile on her face.
After returning to Alex’s residence, Dan asks her if she wants him to remain, but she
orders him to go.
Dan talks a walk of shame out of the place, finally comprehending the tremendous disaster
that he has caused.
Episode 3 The episode opens with Dan talking to his
colleagues attorneys while Alex overhears and purposely misses the elevator that he
is on.
After a strange moment of peering into the mirror, we see Alex chatting to a customer
about her case.
Earlier, we saw her throw a fritter away, but moments later, she handed it to a guard
who said, “We can’t keep doing this.”
Although, we see a different man eating it, making her upset.
The sentencing phase has begun on the case in which Dan and Alex were working together,
and things become a bit uncomfortable in the courtroom between the two.
Regardless of nothing being said, she took the interaction as a win.
Later that evening, Alex had an unexpected conversation with her neighbor, exhibiting
her eccentric side.
We see Dan and Ellen out apartment shopping which becomes a bit strange when he brings
up Arthur, her stepdad, and asks specific questions about their relationship.
When he starts to talk more about it, it turns his daughter off, making her leave.
How did the fire originate at the restaurant?
Early in the season, we met Dan and Alex at dinner, where the sprinklers went off.
What we didn’t know was that Alex was the one that ignited the fire.
We witness her walk into the bathroom, grab some tampons and ignite them on fire.
Of course, the sprinklers set off seconds later, leading them back to her house and
sleeping together for the first time.
Every every move she has made with Dan has been deliberate.
This entire episode is dedicated to examining how Alex has played the game of getting inside
the thoughts of others around her.
Every action she takes is thought out extensively before she makes them.
From her friendship with the neighbor to her relationship with Dan, Alex plays the game
better than anybody.
Alex arrives at Dan’s workplace and begins pondering why she did what she did.
She asks if they might hang together sometimes, but Dan tells her it wouldn’t work.
Beth and Dan sit down for lunch, and he struggles with how she reacts to him being in jail.
She informs him that she did precisely what he instructed her to do since he wouldn’t
allow them to see him in prison and urged her to move on, which she did.
What does Dan tell Alex at her house?
After delivering her remark, Dan comes at Alex’s residence and goes off on her.
He tells her it needs to end right now, but Alex swears it won’t stop any time soon.
However, she tries to spin it, but Dan grabs her and says he knows about the stunt she
pulled at the hospital, and if she comes after his family again, he will end her career.
The episode finishes with present-day Mike supporting Dan by allowing him to rest at
his house to get himself back on his feet while Dan of the past is suffering with the
effects of snapping at Alex as she threw filthy crap all over his car in the parking lot.