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The series is just stupid! The editing is as if someone is learning to use an editing program for the first time and just sticks a bunch of random scenes together in the hope that the audience will think it's clever and erudite. It's neither! Just a pile of rubbish. I bailed after the first episode due to the lack of context to support events, characters or narrative! Apple is not one of the leading streaming platforms and silly stuff like this explains the reason for this. The nod to 1940s and 50s detective noir films is laughable and may explain why in some scenes the actors deliver their lines in a way that makes one wonder if the dialog is all improvised as writers struggle to create a non-existent script, overall, just a pile of garbage!

This series is the usual dystopian plot about people surviving in a post-apocalyptic world, huddled together in a silo. So, it has the usual trappings of grim surroundings and a huge number or grimy, unwashed looking individuals. The series utilizes the talents of actors from many countries who seem to become confused and have difficulty using the same American type accent continuously. Perhaps they are better actors in their native countries but slipping in and out of an accent is really distracting. Harriet Walker who normally plays a posh English person, struggles with some kind of "down South" American accent, giving up the effort every now and again. Overall, the acting is quite pitiful, the casting "woke", and coupled with overuse of flashbacks, with dead characters resurfacing and fading away, the series plods along until viewers give up and stop watching. It could have been condensed into fewer episodes by using less filler episodes and less rubbish dialog!

Apple is just not one of the leaders in streaming as so many of their series just fade after one season and are never renewed. Difficult to understand why this one has been!

This series comes from the same new wave producers, TVF, that made Panchyat. However, this is nowhere as good as Panchyat. The story line for this makes little sense to a global audience as it is peppered with acronyms that pertain to the Indian Civil Service and the preparations for this type of career. The narrative unfolds in a very choppy manner to the point where the scenes become nonlinear and without continuity. Everyone tries to appear exceptionally clever, following in the usual love hate relationship most Indians have with their colonial heritage. The characters are all very stereotypical and the plot nothing as engaging or globally identifiable as Panchyat, or Made in Heaven. Probably best suited only for a local, targeted audience.

This series starts off well but soon becomes mired in the usual story of corruption, race and male dominance within the police force. If one watches too many of these type of shows they end up having little faith in the system in place to protect us as citizens.

The first episode just moves slowly, trying to bring myriad inputs together. The acting is predictable, Capaldi moves, acts and looks like a zombie, while Jumbo does her signature clenching her lips together when things fail to go her way. The narrative unfolds slowly but the underlying agenda of racism definitely comes through as the main message.

By episode 4 the writing starts to get really silly. The editing becomes more choppy and the overuse of flashbacks abound. Events happen that totally are outside of normal police procedure. Eventually, interest is lost and there is just not enough going on to keep going. More cleverly written police dramas are needed for TV now, not thinly veiled agenda driven movies the try to constantly message the viewers!

The premise of this series is one that's been done many times over. What sets this one apart is the fact that it's completely unbelievable and filled with plot holes of enormous size. The silliness of the events as they unfold are all designed to match the narrative which must have been conceptualized and written by a simpleton who knows very little about aviation and security procedures. The focus seems to be on stereotypes that make it all too predictable. The action takes place on board a large plane with 200 passengers and apparently only 3 flight attendants. The set seems massively staged and one gets the distinct impression that it's a plane that just sits on the ground with actors just doing their scenes on board. The cast reads like a DEI agenda and is made up of characters intended to show the new Britain, one blended from every nationality. It would have worked a lot better if there was an actual story and not so many huge plot holes! It's all really too silly, and shows how desperate some streaming platforms are that they will broadcast any bit of old rubbish!

This series tells its stories in a very confused and chaotic manner. The narrative unfolds in a completely nonlinear manner and viewers have to fill in a lot of gaps in order to follow and in many instances, create continuity and additional content in order to make the episodes and characters understandable. The acting is fine but the story telling simply sucks. The first season started this trend and the second season has amplified the bizarre technique even further. Never having heard of or read the novel on which this is based one doesn't know if it's written in an equally chaotic style. The series is watchable, just chaotic and confusing!

This 20 year old HBO production was done back in the day when lavish productions usually translated to success. The cast is a stellar one, the story is not as great. The concept appears to be to use a combination of British posh accents mixed in with Cockney. The result is just too silly at times when one hears British slang terms like "Give Over" and "Bollocks" used over and over again. There was even an occasional "Innit" thrown in for good measure. The series was not a great success when it aired so it was canceled in the second season, which explains the rapid wrap up in the last few episodes. Loose ends had to disappear! There have been a few similar series subsequently, some have been successful, others just died on the vine. This is a watchable series but nothing to the level of I, Claudius and others. Watch it and then judge for yourself.

This is a thinly disguised message series that has as its agenda, Wokeism and strong messaging about female empowerment and DEI. The first few episodes show a strong start but eventually the series takes on a strong soap opera vibe and really becomes unwatchable. While the themes are admirable ones, the constant messaging of the primary themes makes each ensuing episode really boring and signals the start of a downward spiral for the series. The special effects are really very cheaply done and come across as if they were using cheap plastic toys on a table top to simulate moon landings. The backdrop for the lunar landscape looks like it had been carved out of green cheese! Viewers want to be entertained when they watch series like this, not necessarily be subjected to constant messaging about social justice, issues etc.

This series really asks a lot of viewers. Most detective series border unbelievable but this one goes into the realm of completely implausible. The lead is a fat guy who is able to perform amazing physical tasks beating up bad guys etc. The plots are ridiculous and the narrative is done in a way where success is always guaranteed even if the way to solve the crimes are completely illogical. Events happen solely to ensure that the cases are all solved. No wonder it only lasted for two seasons. It could not have garnered good support or become a smash hit with viewers. The slot for this type of genre is crowded, this series was just not that good to survive in it!

This is a rather fanciful rendition of Galsworthy's classic saga. Unfortunately, the use of lots of old cars, big hats and period costumes don't make up for the casting and other poor production issues. The use of British actors to play French characters is quite laughable, especially the one who plays Prosper Profond. His over the top accent makes him sound and appear rather like a caricature instead of an actual character. The actress who played Soames's wife, Annette, kept slipping between French and British accents. Also distracting was the lack of convincing aging of the characters, all of whom seemed to defy aging completely despite the passage of time. The books are far better than this weak soap opera like production! It's watchable, but not a masterpiece or classic like the books!

This is a saga that spans generations and historical events. The story is a good one but the asynchronous way of telling it with overuse of time jumps, is just stupid! Sometimes the time jumps are overlaid on scenes from a different era, without even having the same content or theme. The story continuity then becomes nonexistent and one can only wonder if the director or writers were more focused on having the scenes look artistic, but leaving the narrative to take second place. Maybe, as others on here have recommended, it's better to read the book as that may have a more linear approach to telling the story, without the incessant use of silly time jumping scenes. The acting is good, the storytelling is hopeless!

This series meanders all over the place. It tries to tell one story but has so many subplots that eventually it loses its way and hits a brick wall. It just tried to hard to be clever, funny and dark.....and all at the same time. The writers do their best to drag out the content to fill seven episodes, but in reality, it all could have been done in three. So much of the content is irrelevant and has very little to do with the story. Much of the dialog is just a bit silly and appears to be geared at promoting Irish tourism. There are some bits of LGBTQ stuff but that really doesn't seem to happen. Overall, it just tried to be a bit of everything, but ended up being too much Blarney!

This series goes at the speed of a smoldering fire. More like a slow cooker. The concept is clear but things move too slowly to maintain interest. There's a limit to how much " nothingness" a viewer can take. The sets are minimalist, a few old computers and a cluster of desks. The company seems to have about 4 employees. The pace is just too slow to maintain interest, and with a story that is neither that strong, engaging or compelling, interest is lost very early.

The wish for a good work life balance is wonderful. Unfortunately, this series doesn't achieve a good balance between a good way to tell a story and keeping it interesting enough to maintain viewer engagement. Had to give up after 3 episodes. Life is too short to spend on this. Watching paint dry was far more exciting and rewarding!

This was rubbish! It involves so many different story lines, not all of which are related to the main theme or even relevant. It's as if random scenes are stuck together in the hope that a story will emerge. Jeff Daniels's southern accent is so over the top that it makes one cringe to hear it. The other actors had little to work with as the script was so badly written with stilted dialog and used medieval words that no one in modern times even utters! It makes you wonder what the point of the 6 episodes was, other than to create below average content and waste time. This series is yet another example of why Netflix continues to rack up losses!

This is just bad! It's not funny, it's silly, but not silly as in fun, silly as in really, really stupid. The chase scenes and spy satire falls flat and it all seems to fall very short of spoofing any spy movie in existence. Apple TV must have been desperate to fund this rubbish, or maybe they're still on a learning curve with their streaming platform. Even if you try to see it for what it's supposed to be, just a fun romp to show the ridiculousness and lack of realism of other spy movie franchises like 007 or Mission Impossible, this is just soooo bad, it just does not achieve that goal at all! Best avoided!

Could not even finish the first episode! The fake accents were revolting to hear and the script had the actors delivering their lines as if they read them off a teleprompter. The writer obviously had some fanciful idea about that era. Why not match actors to the nationalities portrayed and have them speak in their native languages for authenticity. Other productions do this. It's silly that they all speak English using imagined accents, forgetting to do so sometimes! The acting isn't great and one can only assume that these are down on their luck actors who need to find money to pay their rent or mortgage since they are no longer that much in demand. It's a good concept, but one that's horribly executed!

The thing with series like this is that once you decide to watch them, no analysis or connection to logic can be done. Belief and logical thinking have to be suspended. The events, as illogical as they all are, are solely geared towards making the narrative as thrilling as possible, they are just not logical. There are so many instances in the two seasons where this occurs, it's just amazing. In the first episode, the passengers leave Jordan on one type of aircraft but make an emergency landing in Tehran in another without changing flights. Other instances..... it's simply incredulous that the lead suspect can walk around Tehran and go into police stations and sit under her wanted poster without being identified. The locations themselves look very little like Teheran, a place where sanctions have had an impact on goods and services. They look very similar to the hills above LA. There are many more like that but if one is to enjoy the series, just go with the flow, accept its lack of logic and its predictability without giving those details a second thought!

This series is an attempt by Indian producers to create a costume drama using lavish sets but rubbish writing and amateur actors. The script is a fanciful rendition of events that may or may not have some historical basis, but the writing is so bad and the editing so poorly done, that the final product is completely unwatchable. Did Netflix really fund this production? It's simply terrible! There are no other words to describe it! There was ample opportunity to make it into something so much better but it just turned into some kind of vanity project with a narrow focus and narrative that must only be understood by the writers and producers. A complete and total waste of time. The first episode is enough to convince one not to continue!

This series starts off well, charming characters, quirky family, real life family problems with adoption etc. However, it quickly becomes repetitive with the characters seeming to go nowhere and the story line stagnates. Most distracting are the lead actor's upper teeth which appear to be a badly made set of dentures with huge gums that appear to be very protuberant. One cannot help but notice them every time he opens his mouth or smiles. Hopefully, he can get them made to be more aesthetically pleasing.

The chemistry between all the cast is good but the episodes seem to lack the sharp witted, heavy on sarcasm, British type humor. Maybe it's been watered down for the US market in the fear that it would be misinterpreted or just not understood. It's an average series that could have been better.

The invasion and occupation of the Channel islands was a difficult time in the history of WW2. This fictional and rather fanciful soap opera really does not do it justice if one is looking for any authenticity. The "Germans" all speak beautiful English, sometimes heavily accented, other times not. It's like the actors forget who they're supposed to be. A young Laurence Fox just can't quite shake off his posh accent! The message is like that of a wartime English propaganda film, intended to bolster morale. The characters are all stereotypical. Unfortunately, the writing is quite appalling, and despite the efforts of a stellar cast of the day, the series just never gets off the ground. It only went for 1 Season and ended rather abruptly!

This series is bad, really, really bad! I gave it 3 episodes then gave up. The cast is like a SNL graveyard, with washed up actors dredged up from the past and trying to appear funny again. The series storyline just makes no sense, and coupled with a childish script, there can be no redeeming feature for this show. It's a perfect example of just how desperate streaming platforms are for content, that they appear to stream anything with people who can move and speak!

Maya Rudolph was funny on SNL because the other cast members she played off of, made her brand of humor come through and hid her desperately poor acting skills. This series, in which she has center stage, allows her poor acting skills to come through. It's just bad.....really, really bad!

The idea behind the film is good, but it is such a poor production that the idea never really surfaces as a story. The director tries too hard to make it into an artistic production, the story gets totally buried in all the images of flowers and overly long periods of silence and blank screen time. There seems to be no script, no context as to who the supporting characters are, but all just appear as actors improvising as they go along. It ultimately becomes a pointless and very boring experience to watch. Viewers understand the concept portrayed in the film, that is, the idea of a normal existence side by side with the horrors of Auschwitz's purpose. However, this could have been executed much better with a good script and a more structured format! The audio track is also very inaudible!

Like all of these reality series that deal with this theme, this one highlights the outstanding job done by CBP agents in their daily war, protecting national borders. However, the episodes tend to become repetitive after a while, even using the same dialogue over and over. For viewers, the repetitive nature of the episodes do not do much to keep people engaged and interested. Understandably, this work is of the utmost importance to any country, but it does not make for riveting viewing after the first 10-15 episodes. It is therefore surprising that it has been given repeat seasons, despite the repetitive format.

This is yet another of the new type of Mexican series. It tries to be clever like House of Flowers but fails dismally! The script is silly and filled with predictable characters, and the events impossible to believe. Some of the scenes are just so silly, one cannot imagine it possible that the writers thought they could get away with them e.g the scene with the main character hanging from a balcony in full view of a crowd, but no one does anything. The acting is forced, the audio track barely audible, and even if viewers just went with the flow and tried to imagine it as a comedy, ignoring all the illogical and implausible twists and turns, the silliness of the plot makes that impossible to do so. The premise is that of a very watered down Indiana Jones, but the script never achieves that level of humor.....or even parody. It's just plain silly and not worth the time to watch.

This is an above average series from Poland. It describes the situation before WW2, and deals with the struggle between a number of factions fighting for control of the city. It has multiple timelines and multiple tracks, but the narrative switches between them all in a chaotic manner. This results in the story being told in a very confused manner and makes it difficult for non-Polish viewers to maintain any sort of continuity with the story. Obviously, it helps if the viewer has some knowledge of the history of that era in Poland. A few of the scenes appear to be randomly stuck in among others, which also does not help provide a linear way to narrate a story. The series is quite good, but the way the story is told leaves much to be desired!