Her supervisor Agent Carter (Blair Underwood) assigns Lee a case which has slightly uncanny elements. There are a series of murder/suicides where they think the perpetrators were persuaded to commit the acts by an unknown person. Who then somehow left cryptic notes at the scene signed "Longlegs" with no other evidence of being involved or present at all.
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, injury detail
Osgood Perkins paints Satanic panic in shades of brown. This really has an unusual look, all dingey brown and oatmeal tones, clutter and wood panelling.
I'm not entirely sure what to think of it. There's a fiddly serial killer hunt procedural in here but the investigation is largely peripheral and vibe based. Then there's a layer of weird Satanic almost cult behaviour and gurning performance from Nic Cage as Longlegs in prosthetics and pointedly weird powder and lipstick. We get told everything and yet it's all also just creepily unresolved and circular.
It's cut right back to the bone with a tiny cast mostly Monroe and Underwood visiting desolate locations to interview people. You can both see where it's going and not.
What it is though is deeply unnerving throughout and for this I think I'm going to call it 8/10. You might think "is that it?" though it's all in the tone.