It is a series of powerful events that tell a girl named Ivy. Evie fled 13 years after being captured by her abductors. Ivy headed to ordinary houses on a normal street one day but things would be very bad for her during that time.
One of the great things about this series is that it forces you to confront your own lazy habits of thought, like judging characters in circumstances about which you know nothing.
For a crime story it is unusually gentle and generous toward its characters; it is not cynical or despairing - indeed, it is in the end a love story, or rather, several interlocking love stories set in contrast to the pathological mockery of one.
Thirteen is somewhat of a retread of other television series with similar child abduction/returned premises, though it is made better by the performances of its core cast.
We respond so immediately to any story about a missing child that we may even overlook weaknesses in writing, performances or direction. That isn't a problem with Thirteen.
Despite the intentional opacity of Comer's character in many scenes, she is fantastic, delivering an intensely physical performance that illustrates how often trauma manifests in the body.
Comer...delivers a stunning performance, playing on many levels at once, her growing disbelief as she understands she has spent much of her prime so isolated, convincing and heartbreaking.
