I am not normally a viewer that is very cognizant of film technique and cinematography, so when something stands out to me, it really has to be bad, and the cinematography and effects are just aggressively terrible.
Every episode features lots of very pointless and distracting "dutch tilts" and the director seems to be trying to make "banal slo-mo moments" a trademark of the show. It will break into slo-mo at the most bizarre times. One character turns to look at another -- slo-mo. Somebody leans back in their chair -- slo-mo. And these aren't "foreshadowing" moments or moments of great emotional importance, they're just "Hey, let's do slo-mo."
The effects during the quickening are just embarrassingly bad. The very first quickening shown is in a parking lot, and in the parking lot are four obvious mortar pots, just sitting in the middle of the the parking lot. They erupt during the quickening and you are thinking "Why are there mortar pots just sitting there waiting to erupt? This is stupid." Half the other effects are just literally roman candles or other fireworks you could literally buy at a roadside fireworks shot. The only thing they seemed to put "effects" effort into is the lightning. And it's not great lightning.
I can forgive bad effects as long as the stories are great, but....
Others have mentioned that the plots are very thin and predictable. I am six episodes in and there is no real explanation for why Nick seems determined to investigate crimes he's not being paid to investigate. He is getting paid to do some security work, but he's also been asked to do some extremely illegal things (break into a Romanian consulate) without any indication that he's being paid the top dollar required to make it worth committing a federal felony.
Also, the numerous felonies committed during every episode just seem to go away at the end of every episode. Killed a whole bunch of federal agents? Nah, don't sweat it. Meanwhile at the other extreme the cops seem awfully fond of breaking down Amanda's door for things they couldn't possibly have probable cause to suspect her for. The cops are literally just "We know it was you! For reasons!" And then when Nick and Amanda say "Look, we're naked in the bath! We couldn't possibly have done it!" the cops just go "Curses, foiled again. Sorry about that door." and leave.
In the theft above, they steal from an auction house a deed to a property that has been lost for hundreds of years to get it back to the family's descendants. It's never discussed that A) If the descendants have a legal right to the deed, they could just file suit to reclaim it, or B) since a felony was committed to obtain the deed, if the descendants now show up with it and try to exercise it, they have to answer some tough questions about how they obtained it. Instead, it's treated like a magic talisman: just obtain it and everything will be great!
The events are the kind of thing that would only really appeal to someone with the mind of a child, or someone determined to try to ignore the logical holes.
Every episode features lots of very pointless and distracting "dutch tilts" and the director seems to be trying to make "banal slo-mo moments" a trademark of the show. It will break into slo-mo at the most bizarre times. One character turns to look at another -- slo-mo. Somebody leans back in their chair -- slo-mo. And these aren't "foreshadowing" moments or moments of great emotional importance, they're just "Hey, let's do slo-mo."
The effects during the quickening are just embarrassingly bad. The very first quickening shown is in a parking lot, and in the parking lot are four obvious mortar pots, just sitting in the middle of the the parking lot. They erupt during the quickening and you are thinking "Why are there mortar pots just sitting there waiting to erupt? This is stupid." Half the other effects are just literally roman candles or other fireworks you could literally buy at a roadside fireworks shot. The only thing they seemed to put "effects" effort into is the lightning. And it's not great lightning.
I can forgive bad effects as long as the stories are great, but....
Others have mentioned that the plots are very thin and predictable. I am six episodes in and there is no real explanation for why Nick seems determined to investigate crimes he's not being paid to investigate. He is getting paid to do some security work, but he's also been asked to do some extremely illegal things (break into a Romanian consulate) without any indication that he's being paid the top dollar required to make it worth committing a federal felony.
Also, the numerous felonies committed during every episode just seem to go away at the end of every episode. Killed a whole bunch of federal agents? Nah, don't sweat it. Meanwhile at the other extreme the cops seem awfully fond of breaking down Amanda's door for things they couldn't possibly have probable cause to suspect her for. The cops are literally just "We know it was you! For reasons!" And then when Nick and Amanda say "Look, we're naked in the bath! We couldn't possibly have done it!" the cops just go "Curses, foiled again. Sorry about that door." and leave.
In the theft above, they steal from an auction house a deed to a property that has been lost for hundreds of years to get it back to the family's descendants. It's never discussed that A) If the descendants have a legal right to the deed, they could just file suit to reclaim it, or B) since a felony was committed to obtain the deed, if the descendants now show up with it and try to exercise it, they have to answer some tough questions about how they obtained it. Instead, it's treated like a magic talisman: just obtain it and everything will be great!
The events are the kind of thing that would only really appeal to someone with the mind of a child, or someone determined to try to ignore the logical holes.