There's so much backstory and universe building being set up in this show, but all this and all the characters are just too bland and uninteresting for me to care. There's really not much happening either, except a crime gone wrong and lot of people asking each other questions and answering with "why do you ask?" It feels like watching bad impro with people blocking each other. And the actors are overacting to get something out of the empty dialogue.
The dialogue is too mundane, to detailed. ("We're gonna use NYPD vehicles. We can't wait for ours to be dispatched.") It's repetitous too, the same info is told to different characters. Writer Ed Solomon tries too hard to write casual and clever lines, but they feel contrived and often too self-conscious.
The star of the show is the postal inspector. She's diagnosed borderline to explain her annoying acting style, which is too-cool-for-school and inappropriately casual. Nothing frightens her the whole time, and she's never in doubt, she's a hollow character even with the borderline label. None of the other characters are memorable either.
Solomon is a comedy writer, which explains the weird tone in this show. There are too many jokes for it to be an engaging drama, but not enough humor to be a comedy, nor enough suspense or mystery to be a thriller. Instead it's this half-serious, non-engaging story.
The dialogue is too mundane, to detailed. ("We're gonna use NYPD vehicles. We can't wait for ours to be dispatched.") It's repetitous too, the same info is told to different characters. Writer Ed Solomon tries too hard to write casual and clever lines, but they feel contrived and often too self-conscious.
The star of the show is the postal inspector. She's diagnosed borderline to explain her annoying acting style, which is too-cool-for-school and inappropriately casual. Nothing frightens her the whole time, and she's never in doubt, she's a hollow character even with the borderline label. None of the other characters are memorable either.
Solomon is a comedy writer, which explains the weird tone in this show. There are too many jokes for it to be an engaging drama, but not enough humor to be a comedy, nor enough suspense or mystery to be a thriller. Instead it's this half-serious, non-engaging story.