I don't like this mini series. It tries to be "24", but it doesn't have the guts, the writing ability or the actors to get away with it.
No one in this series is likable. I don't like the switching back and forth between uppercrust English (Hari Kumar, anyone?) and arabic dialog, because no one talks like that. Dermot Mulroney who is no Kiefer Sutherland, comes of as a selfrighteous prick, Jemma Redgrave looks plain (unlike the rest of the family), and the British cast seems to have walked straight out of one of the myriad of second tier British cop series.
When watching this stuff, I thought "there are Miami Vice episodes made 20 years ago that this dreck couldn't touch". And that's with all modern technology.
No one in this series is likable. I don't like the switching back and forth between uppercrust English (Hari Kumar, anyone?) and arabic dialog, because no one talks like that. Dermot Mulroney who is no Kiefer Sutherland, comes of as a selfrighteous prick, Jemma Redgrave looks plain (unlike the rest of the family), and the British cast seems to have walked straight out of one of the myriad of second tier British cop series.
When watching this stuff, I thought "there are Miami Vice episodes made 20 years ago that this dreck couldn't touch". And that's with all modern technology.