Jessica Chastain did such a good job it made me hate her I can't fault the acting at all and that's kind of the biggest problem with this series because it made me hate Jessica Chastain. She did such a good job as this awful self-involved woman driven by her own ego and desires without any regard for anyone else, that it made me hate the actress behind the character. I'm usually great at separating art from the artist, but she was so great in this, I can't see past it. So, well done Jess? I honestly hate her character so much, to just cheat, lie, break hearts, ruin lives, go through all these things that most other people would grow and learn something from, and not develop a shred of empathy for anybody besides herself, it boils my blood. Mira is a user, she uses the men in her life to get what she wants, she doesn't know another way, she plays it off like she's so independent, a career driven woman, but she depends on Johnathan, she depends on Poli, she depends on her boss to get everything she wants. She openly admits that she used to be able to manipulate her boss into getting what she wants, a thinly veiled admission of how she treated Johnathan. I wouldn't hate her so much if she had just made a clean break and let Johnathan move on and build a better life for himself. But she hangs on and on and on, she just can't handle the fact that her choice to leave him might end up better for him than her. Other reviewers see Johnathan as just as bad as Mira but he doesn't come close. He is hopelessly in love with Mira and all she does is take him for granted, toy with his heart, and continuously lets him down. He was willing to work it out, she didn't want that, so he worked on himself to get to a point where he could let her go. Then she comes back around not because she wants him but because she needs him, and he has to be the one to deny her when he never wanted her to leave to begin with. Mira is helplessly unaware of who she is and what she wants, all she knows is she doesn't want whatever it is she has. And she is happy to keep trying to figure it out at the expense of Johnathan's heart. I could go on but all in all, this series is so ugly and real, written perfectly and acted wonderfully. It's too close to real life and not enjoyable at all to watch, but damn does it make you feel things.