User Reviews

Fourth episode ending was dumb. One, it doubles down on the Zoe plot hole from earlier episodes and two, also distracts from the overall theme.

I don't like the direction this show is taking. It started out great, but it seems to be getting worse as each episode comes in.

Gosh what a great three almost four episodes of this series, I think zoe behaved reasonable with reactions of ignoring Dan and his actions until she had time to let it all sink in, I mean last episode she let a dog in to save Dan from an assasin so she knew something was not right, but being hidden in a Trunk was against her civil rights and now and she wants revenge and redemption from a man that could easily put two in her skull and throw her out the window, the FBI the CIA no one can find him and her answer is to blackmail him ...OK.

I actually really enjoyed what they did with the Zoe Character at the end of the episode, it felt like they built up to it. She's been painted as stomped on from her first moments 'my husbands owns it/he'd be mad about the eaten sofa' Why wouldn't she now, when she has literally nothing to lose, try for some attempt to be seen as something other than the failure the rest of her family sees her as?

This show is like chess: Easy rules, but a complex game.

Each character plays his game and with each new information the tactics get some modifications:

Harold Harper gets a hint about a mole in his team. I think, he has a guess, who it might be and he makes his moves.

Angela Chase is keeping her father Dan Chase up to date. She wants to intensify her researches and stay close to Harold Harper risking to be cought.

Dan Chase has kidnapped Zoe and finds refuge in one of his hideouts and false identities. Zoe, first being the kidnapped, overwhelmed and passive victim, adapts to the situation and has some change of mind.

Dan himself gets more active and makes his moves in regard to the afghan past by reaching out to Pavlovich. Furthermore, some backstory about Dans involvement in Afghanistan.

The present Faraz Hamzad stays still in the shadow, but his demands on the US government are represented by his confidant Nina Kruger. She's also a well chess player and kkeps her cool.

This tv show is a political thriller and the suspense is further slowly increasing. Each character is on the edge and now, each move might be the last one.

Thrilling.

Each week the story gives us a little more. It requires paying careful attention to everything, but you learn so much. Well written. Complicated. I even like the bad guy characters. What is The Old Man hiding from his daughter? Does her boss know who she really is?

Keep it coming.

For those who are looking for an "action" show, look elsewhere. The action in this one is only a small part. It's a "brain" show. I love it.

Finally a little bit of excitement and interest here. The storylines feature far too many twists and turns, but I think there is potential in the show for the firt time since I've been watching.

Of course the woman who derailed her marriage for narcissistic purposes, would now try to be a "main character" in her own deluded power fantasy. I think people are are over looking how wildly out of sync with reality... people can be... great acting, good writing.

This woman, failed to make any decisions after being fully aware of the dangers present. She was given a second opportunity to leave, but didn't. Now, since she doesn't work, have any money and owes a ton of money is trying to work the situation, devoid of sympathy to get her self paid and be "accounted for." I really hope he shoots her in the face.

Dan Chase is in front of every situation for the past 50 years. I have a difficult time believing a woman he met 48 hours previously is going to turn his world upside down. Poor writing.

Our protagonist, Dan Chase, has spent the last 20 or 30 years off the grid hiding out with his wife. When things go south, he takes up with Zoe and ultimately kidnaps her, ostensibly to protect her. They wind up in Los Angeles in a luxury high rise where he has a staff to clean and stock it and owns an investment firm whose employees have never met him.

First, it is hard to believe that "Dan Chase" would have an alternate identity and home that depends on so many people. That's hardly living off the grid. Could he have a shack in the woods of Wyoming? Yep. Why surface in L. A., especially in a building with cameras and recorded video? Why go to a restaurant in public which also may have security. L. A. Is not London, but there are plenty of cameras recording away.

Second, there is no explanation of why folks would work for a company where they have never met the boss. Moreover, when he meets with Zach to tell him to make an investment, there is no explanation as to why he needed a face-to-face meeting. Given that he told, no, ordered, Zach to make the investment, he could have delivered that message over the phone, just like he's been doing for years. He did not have to show his face in public or to Zach when he knows Harper et al are after him and might publish his photo at any minute.

Third, there was no reason to expose his Los Angeles hideout to Zoe, who might at any moment decide to leave. The Los Angeles hideout is tied to the investment firm identity, so if Zoe simply left, or somehow got picked up by the cops, the whole house of cards would fall. Moreover, a guy who spent decades living off the grid would not suddenly decide to let Zoe in as to any of his other alter egos or addresses. He didn't survive this long by being stupid.

Fourth, the plot with Harper, and where Harper is going, is nuts. No matter how desperate Harper is to avoid stuff coming to light, Hamzad's attorney could easily have delivered the question, or she could have simply said, Hamzad wants to meet with you. How about the Starbucks in downtown Kabul on Second St?

Last, Zoe's character changes her personality. A woman worried about making ends meet and getting her son's tuition paid has morphed into a master con woman who has stopped being concerned for her kid, which, if we remember correctly, has been kicked out of school.

A series with great acting is taking a story that at best will need 4 hours to tell and drawing it out to 8 or 10 hours pointlessly, by adding nonsense that runs counter to the characters created.

Three & a half great episodes to start the series then ten minutes that probably destroyed it. That was one of the most absurdly stupid plot developments ever. Sucks.

As other people have commented the show was belivable till the end of this episode. If she is so scared of him, she wouldn´t put him in a position that puts his daughter and him in extraordinary great danger. She is supposedly scared of him and she gives him 3 strong incentives to kill her, not to lose half of everything he owns is the least of it.

Also she makes it completely unfaced by his anger, she suddenly is deranged. What makes it worse is that you can´t blame it to irrationality as she has been cooking it for hours, and she presents her extortion in such calm terms basically claiming she doesn´t care if her need for control kills his daughter, him and herself.

The problem for me when facing an episode like this, which it´s lacy writing because they wanted to give her more protagonism, is that either they fix it in the first 5 minutes of the next episode, or I can´t keep watching it, because I am not going to believe anything anymore, not to mention I am going to dislike a character that the writers want me to love.

Sudenly, they dropped the ball hard.

During the first three episodes, I thought the series was going to be one of the best of the year. This episode was so poorly conceived and written that I will not watch anymore.

Beyond the obvious reasons to hate this episode, I have a very difficult time believing that Chase was maintaining multiple identities so successfully that one of them is a multimillionaire, and that his successful company has just accepted the fact that no one has ever met him.

Like everyone else, I thought the ending was completely unbelievable. If Zoe was smart and ambitious enough to pull that off, she never would have found herself in the situation that she did with her ex-husband. She has been extremely unlikeable since her first scene.

While he might be morally obligated to get her out of the immediate harm that he had put her in, there is zero chance that Chase is dumb enough to involve her so deeply in his life on the run, much less make her his pretend wife!

Either he's brilliantly cunning or he's really stupid, he can't be both. But, that is precisely what's the writers are adding us to accept. I will not and do not.

What did I just watch??

So an ordinary woman makes consequential demands to a professional killer?? Dan should just kill her and his problems go away, such bad logic and writing.

Another perspective... Suddenly a weak divorced woman, who cry's over lack of funds to pay for her sons education, stands strong and confronts a deadly killing machine, to demand half of his wealth???? This was so hard to watch, she should be dead...urgh.

I liked the show so far even though it is somewhat naive (a very old CIA agent against the entire machine... sure), but it is entertaining and well-played. We cannot expect realism from a film or a TV show about the CIA or any other spy agency for obvious reasons. Until this episode, the only gap in the scenario for me was that the U. S. agencies give a rat's ass about some Afghani militant (even if he got rich and powerful). However, maybe there is some plot twist or information we do not know yet that could explain it. But Zoe... I do not understand why some creators make up such annoying female characters (I know that the actress is not guilty). Zoe is not a believable character. At first, she is a typical damsel in distress with an evil ex, a disrespectful son, and money issues (because apparently, she was unable to earn and take care of herself financially for some reason). In a second, she is this courageous woman demanding half of fortune from a professional killer for some ...um...e-mail..? It's hilarious.

First 3 episodes were great and now this. If he is who the story say he is then this is a stupid twist and if she is who the story portray her as she wouldnt do this either. In the story he is a very dangerous man who wont stop at nothing. Also, she has nothing to prove she is who she says she is, only a passport that doesnt even have her picture in it. Doing what she did, the main character would just threaten to kill her son and then torture her until she gave him the password because she is threatening his world and child and if the charcter stayed true he would stop at nothing.