His & Hers is a mystery series starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal. Thompson plays Anna, an ambitious television reporter in Atlanta, and Bernthal plays Jack, a detective with the sheriff’s department in the small town where they both grew up.

His & Hers had some good moments, and a good cast. But it didn’t gel, it didn’t really work. There were too many attempts to mislead, too little sensible foreshadowing, too many inexplicable twists, and too much wrongheaded behavior.

Anna has been AWOL from her job and life for a year because she lost a child. The day she returns to the Atlanta TV station where she used to be the nightly news anchor, a woman is murdered in her home town.

Her former job is now held by Lexi (Rebecca Rittenhouse) and she isn’t automatically getting it back. So she suggests proving herself by doing a field report about the murder. Everyone there knows her. She says they will talk to her.

She asks that the photographer who goes with her is Richard (Pablo Schreiber), who just happens to be married to Lexi.

Jack and his partner Priya (Sunita Mani) work the case. Priya works the case and Jack unworks the case. He tries to hide and obscure all the evidence.

And, yeah, Jack and Anna are married although they haven’t seen each other in a year. And, yeah, Anna and the murdered woman were classmates and friends in high school. Anna starts filing reports for the TV news immediately.

Anna goes to see her mother, Alice (Crystal Fox). She hasn’t seen her mother for a year and is dismayed to learn that her mother is showing signs of dementia. Jack takes care of her.

Jack lives with his sister Zoe (Marin Ireland) and her little girl. And, yeah, Zoe was a high school friend of Anna’s. Now Zoe’s a drunk single mom. Uncle Jack takes better care of his niece than her mother does.

More women get murdered. Women who were friends with Anna in high school. There are flashbacks to her life in high school and her friends, who were mostly the school mean girls.

The few clues that do surface because of Priya’s work get pooh-poohed and dismissed by Jack. All sorts of people look guilty. There’s a voice over in every episode that has little to do with the action on the screen.

The end is bonkers. After 6 episodes trying to trick you so you can never figure out the mystery, you get smacked with a bonkers ending.

His & Hers was based on a novel by Alice Feeney and developed for television by William Oldroyd. Oldroyd directed three of the episodes. Anja Marquardt directed three of the episodes.

It’s a great cast. Everyone had good chemistry. The cinematography was excellent. It should have worked better than it did. I think I would have a very different opinion of the series if they had left out the last 5 or so minutes completely.

The entire series is streaming on Netflix. If you watch it, I’d like to hear how you felt about it.