The production values are excellent but there it kind of stops. The style is overdone, everything feels forced and artificial just like the moody shots of London. Nobody talks like these characters do, it's not remotely natural sounding.
Peter Capaldi hams it right up as is his way, and that's OK. Everyone keeps insisting Cush Jumbo is this amazing actor but I've not seen any evidence of it, here she's pretty artificial and unbelievable. Maybe it's the poor dialogue, script and plot but she's not impressive.
I bailed out halfway through episode one because this was clearly just going to be yet another streaming drama that has about 2 hours of plot stretched out over 8 hours of TV - they just drip feed one main plot point per episode and the rest is filler. Please stop doing this.
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