I've seen plenty of worse cable series than this one would have been. I wonder whether executives didn't just decide against "modernizing" the iconic central character after seeing the finished product and perhaps disappointing ratings for this pilot. It's easily something I would have given another look were there more episodes unless and until they ran out of ways of making them as seamless as was this one. Mercifully absent cringe-y attempts to recapture either the genre, the period, or both.
Review of Marlowe
