I admit I could only get through about two and half hours of this eternally irksome show before giving up. There may be a really good story in here but to get there you basically have to give up hours of your life watching endless, plotless, lifeless tv. Part of the problem is the writing, which isn't bad, it's just filled with every cliche known to tv (and why does every show, to indicate how intelligent a character is, rely on Schrodingers cat? The poor animal has been killed/not killed far too many times).
The other issue is the casting. No one seems quite right for their role, but Joel Edgerton, who when properly cast is good, here is playing his lead character way over the top: the only way this show would work is if his character was sympathetic, but Edgerton plays the man as a bullying, unpleasant, creep; it's hard not to root against him.
All in all, perhaps if this had been a movie, or a three-parter, it might have worked (with better casting). As an endless tv show, it doesn't.
The other issue is the casting. No one seems quite right for their role, but Joel Edgerton, who when properly cast is good, here is playing his lead character way over the top: the only way this show would work is if his character was sympathetic, but Edgerton plays the man as a bullying, unpleasant, creep; it's hard not to root against him.
All in all, perhaps if this had been a movie, or a three-parter, it might have worked (with better casting). As an endless tv show, it doesn't.
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