i have watched all episodes within the last two days, so i have a pretty fresh memory of all. The first few episodes were promising, the middle 5-6 were hard to bear with, the last 3 were OKAY, just okay nothing more, the finale was supposed to be seen thru all the episodes. so is this a great finale for a great show? NO its not.. its a reasonably good finale for an awfully performed show that spits on the great concept, good plot, and probably a good lot of budget that i predict from good filming quality, and decent performance from main actors.
Seeing this show here rated so high is nothing but a sign of voting manipulation.. which is becoming more and more popular on IMDb lately.
the good, the bad and the ugly about the whole season The good, Interesting concept, promising plot, good filming quality, good performance from main characters, nice landscapes, and visuals.
The bad Annoying level of random, irrelevant sexual scenes and nudity, abnormally high level of bisexuality thrown on our faces, annoying flashbacks from every character that seem out of place, severely boring and dull episodes, extremely slow progress and development of the overall plot as well as character's personal presentation. Irrelevant big words thrown here and there around the episodes continuously. Poorly planned action scenes despite the reasonable visual performance. A lot of irrelevant blahblah that doesn't contribute to character presentation, doesn't make me feel attached to anyone in the show.. despite some good backgrounds for the characters having thought of the way they are introduced to us is extremely lacking of any impression.
The ugly, Stories.. stories.. stories.. more than half of the total time of total episodes is character's continuously telling some bullcrap story from the past,, my dad was.. my uncle was.. when i was a kid,, my sister was... he said.. she said... Honestly.. sickeningly repetitive... some episodes were difficult to not to FF which is something i rarely do even with the worst flicks.
overall the idea is good.. and i can see the money spent, there is effort, but its constantly failing to perform the best.
i can see a good idea was picked by a group of statistics lovers, and just the common assumption in the industry that "as long as what you sell matches to browse results, it should work" sort of soulless production was performed.
We can see this in choices of main characters, the cop, the criminal, the junkie, the innocent, the poor, the gay girl, the gay man... smells statistics?
how about the White, the Hispanic, the Black, the Asian, the European, The Russian, The Indian ??
Statistics are fine if worked around correctly, its not a bad thing to draw a picture where everyone can relate to some part of it, but if you make cheap dishes, and present them in ideal plates..
that doesn't necessarily make a good dining experience.
Lets hope second season will fix these, and improve.
