A program about a M>F transsexual hit woman has enough to explore right there. By the third episode the creators had tacked on enough byzantine subplots to sink a 70's disaster movie. Many of them aren't developed at all- think of the Levi/Eddie relationship and those packages, or why Liam enters the story (no: poignancy is not a qualification). Too many things happen, almost always badly, to too many people in this series. Sometimes it's best to step back, let characters develop and make their lives the focus of a drama, rather than inventing plot twists and adding new characters (NB: the FINAL EPISODE's carnival family).
I stuck with this show to the end and admired a lot about it, but I was cringing about the creator's need to complicate, entangle and embellish.
I stuck with this show to the end and admired a lot about it, but I was cringing about the creator's need to complicate, entangle and embellish.