The Sinner: 10 Plot and Character Inconsistencies That Make No Sense About Jamie
Jamie's character on The Sinner is a pretty complex one. While it isn't uncommon to see a character go through an incredible journey through the slow progression of a multi-episode series, Jamie's was quite the downfall.
Matt Bomer played the character, which already ranks among his top-five roles, beautifully and convincingly. And the story was compelling and thought-provoking. But there's no denying that there are inconsistencies in the story and with the character himself.
This isn't to say that season three of The Sinner was not fabulous. Nonetheless, a few things might have made viewers scratch their heads.
10 Surprised And Angry When Nick Showed Up At His House
It's understandable why Jamie would have called Nick: feeling lost and alone, like his life had no meaning once again, so he turned to the one person he knows made him feel alive before. However, why did he get so angry when Nick showed up at his home?
Yes, he wanted to keep that part of his life a secret. But he did call Nick, after all, who he knew was unhinged and volatile. What did he expect him to do? Jamie was smarter than that.
9 Leela Never Noticed Anything Off With Him
While the loved ones of deadly serial killers often say they never suspected that anything was wrong with the person, many do recall odd things about their behavior. That even happens in the fictional world: consider other TV characters like Dexter Morgan from Dexter and Joe Goldberg from You and their families and friends. Indeed, Leela did just that when she revealed to Harry that after Jamie found out she had cheated, he simply asked her what he did wrong.
Leela can't be blamed for not recognizing that there was something off with Jamie. Nonetheless, it seems strange that Jamie would have become a caricature of a person for 15 years, never once saying or doing anything that would make Leela question his sanity.
8 No One Investigated Blood On Him In College Dorm
His old college roommate, as well as the photo, revealed what happened back in the day when his roommate put in a request to be transferred. Jamie came home and was sitting on the floor, blindly staring into space with blood on him.
Not only did his roommate witness this, but he also had photographic evidence. Yet the only thing that concerned the school was that his roommate asked to be moved? Why didn't anyone ever question him or investigate how he got blood on him and whose blood it was?
7 Only Started Killing Now
Serial killers do tend to start slowly, potentially with animals, then one kill until they move on to uncontrollable murder. But Jamie was in his 30s, possibly pushing 40. And he only now began to explore murder?
It's possible Jamie was not really a killer at heart, but a lost soul who was easily manipulated by the coaxing of Nick. Either way, he went from a man who simply daydreamed about harming people to one who inflicted violent deaths on two people and even put a gun to a child's head.
6 Still Loved His Wife
If Jamie was supposed to be heartless, he would not have the capacity to have true love or feelings for someone. Viewers even saw how he contemplated harming his own child. Yet he seemed to truly, genuinely love Leela.
He even returned to the house, and they shared a tender moment through the glass sliding doors. Not only were his actions towards Leela inconsistent, but hers toward him as well. Sure, there must have been a lot of conflicting emotions flying around.
5 Had A Strong Bond With Emma
Another strange relationship was between Jamie and Emma. Not only did he appear to have a genuine affection for this young student, and truly care about her, but he often spoke to her as if she were like him.
What about her made Jamie feel like they had a connection? This was never explored, which left a big hole in the plot where the entire purpose of Emma wasn't clear. It might have been to further humanize Jamie and imply that he was not a psychopath, but just highly impressionable.
4 The Game
The game Jamie and Nick played, which was essentially a popular kids game from the '80s and '90s based on an origami paper fortune-teller didn't make much sense in the end.
Jamie brutally killed the police chief and threatened to kill Eli, Sonya, and Harry's daughter, based on chance using his game. But what reason did he have to put their names in the game in the first place? Is revenge a viable reason? If so, that means the element of chance is only added after he had already made a non-randomized choice.
3 Not Much Known About His Past
When trying to figure out what might have happened to Jamie in his life to cause him to become this way, Harry and Sonya went through a box of photos Leela provided to them. One story that came up was that he was bullied by a young boy when they were kids.
A picture surfaces that might have been of that boy, but nothing ever comes of the story, nor is anything else revealed about Jamie's past aside from the fact that he was sort of raised by his father following the death of his mother.
2 Didn’t Want To Die
The biggest inconsistency, which was the whole point of the season, was that, after spending so much time talking about how no one should fear death because it's all random and everyone dies, once faced with death himself, Jamie went into a major panic.
Not only did he beg Harry for help, declaring that he did not want to die, but he reached out for comfort from Harry, who he asked to hold his hand. After all of his talk and experiments and believing Nick, in his final moments, Jamie might have realized that death should be feared and life lived after all.
1 The Relationship With Harry
The whole dynamic between Jamie and Harry made little sense, in some respects. Yes, the pair was oddly drawn to one another as though they each understood what the other was going through. Jamie could see Harry's inner turmoil while Harry had come across killers and personalities like Jamie's hundreds of times before.
But the whole idea of Harry visiting the house, helping him garden, following him around one night, and going out to party to keep an eye on him just seemed strange.
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