There is a fine line between an intelligently written and intricate plot, and one that's just so confusing that you can no longer truthfully call this entertaining. It really does take a GCHQ or MI6 employee with two PhDs and a brain so big they need to wheel it around on a trolley to understand what the hell is going on.
There's no doubt that it's quite well filmed and well acted, but that doesn't make up for it. None of the characters are nice or relatable, they're all flawed and bad and depressed, and they spend time in grim-looking places doing grim things. It's filled with veiled metaphors and conversations so rife with loose implications that you'd need to sit there taking notes and pausing every five seconds to understand everything that's going on. The impenetrable nature of this really makes it boring and irritating beyond words. It is a waste of time to watch this. And by the way - it calls itself a comedy, but there are literally three funny parts in the entire second season. I counted, that's how bored I was.
There's no doubt that it's quite well filmed and well acted, but that doesn't make up for it. None of the characters are nice or relatable, they're all flawed and bad and depressed, and they spend time in grim-looking places doing grim things. It's filled with veiled metaphors and conversations so rife with loose implications that you'd need to sit there taking notes and pausing every five seconds to understand everything that's going on. The impenetrable nature of this really makes it boring and irritating beyond words. It is a waste of time to watch this. And by the way - it calls itself a comedy, but there are literally three funny parts in the entire second season. I counted, that's how bored I was.