Reviews

The end to end actual storyplot with its twists and turns is good.

With a total rewrite of character behaviour this would be really good. Starts with main character, seriously. If you are a guy high up in an intelligence org, you most likely have a non disclosure agreement and it needs to made clear to your wife and family that you can NOT reveal anything about your work. It should be normal that you have to do spythings right? And that the hours are not 9-5 in national security is also totally rubbish.

All the questions from the wife are so unbelievable, what? You deserve to know? Eh, no you dont. She is hysterical and starts intervening in her husbands job.. with old army friends from CIA behind his back? Seriously?

The main character is badly casted, and not believable. He was in the field as an agent, but can hardly fight, no body posture, not good at communicating properly.

Redo this: get a bit tougher and more intelligent actor to play lead (I think John Krasinsky did a great job in Jack Ryan, unless Chris Hemsworth is available- think Extraction :-D ) And get rid of miserable doe-eyed Oona (loved her in Taboo though) and get someone like Noomi Rapace who can do a believable ex-army wife)

skip the sappy bits. The worst was when the kid comes out after they fled the safe house, oh no, they lost his teddy bear. How clichee is that, and this boy is like 11 maybe- would be more upset if he lost his switch)

and Olga, yeah keep Olga, great job, in character, really believable character.

As for all the spying and security incompetence, get someone from MI6 to read the script and point to holes in it. Works for other series!

Or rather few minutes into ep 2 when the Hutts came rolling into town. Badly done playdo figures, as were many of the other creatures, was this suppose to be retro? Looks like the films from the 70s, and fight scenes like ok corrall (smack boom back thuck). Have to be a sw har die fan to watch, really badly done.

You know those situations where someone says: stay in the car, and do they ever stay in the car? here we have- stay in the horse wagon.

we stopped watching after 6th episode end: 2 dudes in forrest. one gets an arrow in the neck. what would you do? duck, hide, get away? well series hero dude knees for a while to check this other guy is ok - blood spurting. then turns around, zoom in on bad guy with bow, shooting an arrow straight towards hero dude... cliffhanger next episode.. what? nope, we couldnt take it any longer.

main character is a young girl who is carrying the big magical sword. she can't fight at all, she is just clumsily waving the sword about, and people kind of automatically dies.

she keeps getting into bad situations, making bad decisions, and generally just wonks things up.

the teenage love drama doesnt help either, this could have been a great fantasy series if it wasn't so cheesy and full of stereotype.

Totally unrealistic.. no, not the time travel part.

a special forces seal time guy who acts like a teenager, doesnt pay attention, talks when he should be paying attention, and always get caught by surprise by the bad guys.

these people are on historical missions, and even if they know they are going into difficult situations, they are always totally unprofessional, wimpy, weepy, and it causes unnecessary drama that I think is written in to get some action and excitement into the series. to no avail. you know those situations, when someone says "stay in the car"? they never stay in the car. this series is full of those situations.

season 2 gets worse as they try to get some romance drama into the story too. a pity, as the historical plot is really good.

season 1: I can not get excited by the story due to the continuous focus on the annoying pressure from the cop played by Juliette Lewis, and all the plump misunderstandings due to the main character misinterpreting and acting ahead of having all the facts. season 2 was OK to watch, and as Lewis character is killed in the end, maybe season 3 gets a new cop and is watchable. now, Juliette is an awesome actor so I can only assume that the horrible outcome is due to the regisseurs instruction on how she should do it. but the character is probably one of the most unlikeable ever and because she is good at acting she plays unlikeable so believable that it is very cringeworthy to watch.

when suspension is build up based on things happening due to someones stupidity, then I get all upset. you know when someone says: stay in the car, and you know: they wont stay in the car. that kind of cheap effort to try to build drama. This is where I stopped watching- beginning episode 3: criminal pretends to be photographer, meets in a flat with I think estate agent to take photos through window of a building with 2 towers for whatever marketing purpose, they don't know each other. 2 seconds later they are at it on the sofa. as she gets to his interesting bits.. she says "and I thought our towers were impressive" - bad acting and cheesy lines, couldn't stand it.

Oh, Mireille.. you are so awesome, in the Killing you portrayed on of the best leads ever. How could you agree to those fake eyelashes?

the series is described as sexy. don't get me wrong, I am not a prude and don't mind sex scenes. but these are so boring because they don't really have any tension. people have immediate sex. "wanna xx? OK." like, fancy a bagel? the main plot is unfortunately dragging a bit. one or two bits of new info each episode.

I do like the build up of the cases though, so if the main characters were just a bit more believable and not over-acting and exaggerated, this show might earn a decent 7. some people have said that it is not like the real world when it comes to lawyers real life but that is fully OK.

so many really good series out there nowadays, this is a time filler.