Silent Truth

Silent Truth slow played its hand from the start. The centers around a group of childhood friends named Junichi, Keisuke, Naoto, and Makiko. They reunite after twenty-three years all for a murder to happen involving a gun they had buried away those twenty-three years ago. If any questions pop up just from that quick description you weren't alone. I had many questions myself and was already poking holes in the premise of the plot. Why would kids even think about burying a gun when in theory kids explaining what happened should suffice in covering them for any crime they think they committed.

Junichi is a detective that believes he shouldn't have become a cop due to a crime he committed who loves Makiko, but never told her due to thinking he was unworthy of her thanks to that crime. Keisuke is the ex-husband of Makiko who has always compared himself to Junichi and believes he never comes out on top. Naoto was the loyal friend who just wants Makiko to be happy. Makiko thought she would end up marrying Junichi, but was heartbroken when he turned her down. That's the basis for their relationships with each other and honestly drives almost every decision any of them makes.

As the episodes went on, more questions than that kept running through my head. The show was enjoyable in building the drama and suspense, but I was wondering more and more what actually happened. Thankfully, the show does indeed start to answer them. The answers are logical which was to my surprise. By the end of the penultimate episode 8, I believed I had figured it all out. That's how nicely everything did come together.

The show still had one more surprise that I didn't see coming that I was delighted about. I did have the pieces correctly identified, but the how and why of the events did thankfully fool me in the end. It was well done and while I did feel like I should have seen it coming, it was worth not figuring it out. The final few minutes did wrap everyone's stories up. I wasn't thrilled about some of the endings for the individual characters, but I again have to admit they made sense.

If you like crime dramas and figuring out what happened with a splash of relationship drama, you will likely enjoy Silent Truth. It has my recommendation of that fits you. It's a tidy nine episodes that truly does get better and shines if you allow the pieces to reveal themselves as the plot unfolds. That's for the present day murder and for the incident the four friends try to bury from twenty-three years ago.