What makes a person a person? How does a woman separate her personhood from motherhood? How might a frustrated sheriff (Karen Robinson) prosecute a crime if it’s near impossible to tell which of two absolutely identical twins committed said crime? Even before the show finally reveals exactly why this story is so interesting, there are plenty of interesting questions to ask, and plenty of new things to think about for all the millennials who grew up on “The Parent Trap” and Mary-Kate and Ashley movies. That premise twists and contorts throughout the season, weaving a convoluted mystery with the entire concept of personhood. Mere weeks before they were supposed to switch on their next birthday, “Gina” is called back to her hometown because “Leni” has gone missing, and her absence reveals a whole world of puzzles that “Gina” has to solve. Gina and Leni switch lives every year on their birthday - husbands, homes, jobs, clothes, everything - and while there’s a whole heap of secrets they’re hiding from the world, they know everything there is to know about each other. And then there’s hunky Dylan (Jonathan Tucker), the boy from the past, who is apparently nothing but trouble if you ask anyone else in town. Leni is married to hunky cowboy Jack (Matt Bomer), while Gina, a writer, is married to hunky therapist Charlie (Daniel Sunjata). Gina may have moved to Hollywood and lost the soft country twang she grew up with, but she can slip back into it and Leni can slip out of it so easily that it’s almost as if there is no difference between them anymore, which is sort of the point. Michelle Monaghan plays identical twins Gina and Leni, who have spent their entire lives switching places with total ease. But in time, starting about halfway through the seven-episode limited series, this particular wacky Netflix mystery show becomes something a whole lot weirder and a whole lot more interesting than most that have come before. In most ways, “Echoes” is just another wacky Netflix mystery show: questionably written, filled with recognizable B-listers, and filmed in such a way that if you didn’t already know it was a Netflix show, you’d be able to figure it out pretty quick.

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