A reasonably entertaing series that requires extreme willing suspension of disbelief

On the one hand I did watch all 8 episodes of season one of The Sinner, a Jessica Biel showcase on USA/Netflix, but one the other hand I wonder why I did. JB does a good job in the lead role and sheds more tears than Naiobe and I liked the small, upstate town setting (I wish tho they'd name s and use different a real location e.g. Amsterdam or Poughkeepsie NY). Story line is that JB kills a man seemingly unknown to her in an unexplained fit of anger when she encounters him on a beach. She is charged w murder, and a detective, played by bill Pullman, convinced she must have had a motive that could explain this sudden act of violence, begins working w her to investigate. Over time he figures out that she suffered a trauma that caused her to forget a period of her life and the sudden appearance of the victim triggered her memories and her action. Ok, but a unfortunately most of the series involves her recovering her memory piece by piece until the final twist at the conclusion. So the series isn't about an investigation so much as about her recovered memory; the memories she uncovers fill in her back story, but there is no drama - these memories are dragged out slowly seemingly to fit the need of the screenwriters rather than to develop character. Worse, so many aspects of this series are wildly improbable or completely ignorant of legal procedures. For ex., no woman in her circumstances would be forced by a judge to enter a binding plea with only minimal help from counsel. Similarly, without divulging anything here, to accept the resolution you have to believe that a middle age couple would never report to police the sudden disappearance of their two daughters, one of whom was gravely ill. Other examples abound.  In short, a reasonably entertaining series but without anywhere near the drama or verisimilitude of most feature films or many police procedural series, such as the recent The Night Of.