This series went off the rails very quickly. The first episode was at least visually interesting with it's visages of London and towering statutes, but that wasn't enough to hold it.
It quickly devolved into silly villains and thugs (Corbell Pickett and his team were so cartoon like they might as well have been wearing sill hats and driving model t fords) and unnecessary intrigue that lead nowhere and had no motivation (don't tell my brother I'm doing this, don't tell my sister this etc, yawn).
Cherise was a truly terrible creation, with the actor trying hard, and failing to develop some sort of menace and an accent that she just couldn't seem to get her teeth around. It didn't help that she was dressed as a ridiculous couture fashion model. Where did she find the time to be evil with all her clothes shopping and long morning ritual to look 'just right'.
Then 'Lowbeer', messes it up even more, what's she supposed to be? There was no explanation as to why a manly looking middle aged female character was held in such fear by some pretty nasty characters. We'd seen no examples of the almighty power of the authoritarian regime that she must have fronted. It made no sense.
Far to many carefully choreographed meandering fights with average martial arts and gymnastics delivered like we should be impressed, but the bar has been moved much much higher than this show delivers at. It all ended up being like a 1 second attention span instagram post or something you flick through in a magazine between ads, or even the ads themselves.
And the the baddies on 'our' team. Ash and Ossien are creepy, and suddenly the silly named Lev Zubov is a sadistic jerk who thinks slashing staff across the face is normal behaviour?
And then pretty much everyone turns out to be duplicitous.
The Viewer very quickly stops caring about any of them.
The show ended up exposing itself as a shallow, meaningless, meandering thread of nothing, and then we (the viewers) all disappeared.
Ps - Whoever is vetting Chloe's scripts for her needs to be fired. This is just another in a string of duds she's starred in that have failed to deliver. I'm starting to think that she's the problem. She's the jinx.
Expensive looking junk food. Please don't renew this for a second season.
It quickly devolved into silly villains and thugs (Corbell Pickett and his team were so cartoon like they might as well have been wearing sill hats and driving model t fords) and unnecessary intrigue that lead nowhere and had no motivation (don't tell my brother I'm doing this, don't tell my sister this etc, yawn).
Cherise was a truly terrible creation, with the actor trying hard, and failing to develop some sort of menace and an accent that she just couldn't seem to get her teeth around. It didn't help that she was dressed as a ridiculous couture fashion model. Where did she find the time to be evil with all her clothes shopping and long morning ritual to look 'just right'.
Then 'Lowbeer', messes it up even more, what's she supposed to be? There was no explanation as to why a manly looking middle aged female character was held in such fear by some pretty nasty characters. We'd seen no examples of the almighty power of the authoritarian regime that she must have fronted. It made no sense.
Far to many carefully choreographed meandering fights with average martial arts and gymnastics delivered like we should be impressed, but the bar has been moved much much higher than this show delivers at. It all ended up being like a 1 second attention span instagram post or something you flick through in a magazine between ads, or even the ads themselves.
And the the baddies on 'our' team. Ash and Ossien are creepy, and suddenly the silly named Lev Zubov is a sadistic jerk who thinks slashing staff across the face is normal behaviour?
And then pretty much everyone turns out to be duplicitous.
The Viewer very quickly stops caring about any of them.
The show ended up exposing itself as a shallow, meaningless, meandering thread of nothing, and then we (the viewers) all disappeared.
Ps - Whoever is vetting Chloe's scripts for her needs to be fired. This is just another in a string of duds she's starred in that have failed to deliver. I'm starting to think that she's the problem. She's the jinx.
Expensive looking junk food. Please don't renew this for a second season.