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The series has no connection the the Creator/JohnGrisham novel [[Literature/TheConfession of the same name]].
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The series has no connection the to the Creator/JohnGrisham novel [[Literature/TheConfession of the same name]].
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The series has no connection the the Creator/JohnGrisham novel [[Literature/TheConfession of the same name]].
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* FromBadToWorse: The confessor's childhood. The confessor says that when he was first sent to foster care by child services after being abandoned by his alcoholic and violent father, at first he thought nothing could be worse than his past home life. He was wrong - his foster parents were pedophiles who raped him and shared him with their friends.
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* FromBadToWorse: The confessor's childhood. The confessor says that when he was first sent to foster care by child services after being abandoned by his alcoholic and violent father, at first he initially thought nothing could be worse than his past home life. He was wrong - his foster parents were pedophiles who raped him and shared him with their friends.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The confessor has no guilt or remorse for the crimes he's committed, [[spoiler: and the priest, while by the confessor's own admission is a good man now, has a very dark past. The fact that the confessor has shown decency and mercy and that he would never have become what he was but for his father's abuse and neglect makes this an arguable case of GreyAndGrayMorality.]]
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The confessor has no guilt or remorse for the crimes he's committed, [[spoiler: and the priest, while a good man now even by the confessor's own admission is a good man now, admission, has a very dark past. The fact that the confessor has shown decency and mercy and that he would never have become what he was but for his father's abuse and neglect makes this an arguable case of GreyAndGrayMorality.]]
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* FromBadToWorse: The confessor's childhood. The confessor says that when he was first sent to foster care by child services after being abandoned by his alcoholic and violent father, at first he thought nothing could be worse than his past home life. He was wrong - his foster parents were pedophiles who raped him and shared him with their friends.
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* SmugSnake: Sheldon Hoffman, the embezzling stock broker who thinks that his money and influence make him invincible.
* TakeOurWordForIt: The confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive estranged father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].
* TakeOurWordForIt: The confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive estranged father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].
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* SmugSnake: Sheldon Hoffman, the embezzling stock broker who thinks that his money and influence make him invincible.
* TakeOurWordForIt: The confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive estranged father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].invincible.
* TakeOurWordForIt: The confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive estranged father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].
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* HidingBehindReligion: The Confessor accuses the priest of doing this.
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* HidingBehindReligion: The Confessor confessor accuses the priest of doing this.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: The Confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive estranged father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The Confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].
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* TakeOurWordForIt: The Confessor confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive estranged father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The Confessor confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].
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* FreudianExcuse: The Confessor describes a childhood of brutal beatings and later abandonment by his own father, followed by sexual abuse at the hands of foster parents. It's little wonder he grew up to be a violent and remorseless criminal.
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* FreudianExcuse: The Confessor describes a childhood of brutal beatings and later abandonment by his own alcoholic father, followed by sexual abuse at the hands of foster parents. It's little wonder he grew up to be a violent and remorseless criminal.
