Unfortunately, it's got a small amount of good writing and acting surrounded by a bunch of cheesy, improbable, childishly silly fantasy-nonsense scenarios. There's a lot of empty pockets left where layered individual character development should be, and instead there's just repeated pepperings of interpersonal soap-operatic kaka. And, holy crow, the amount of psuedo-analytical psychological profiling and sexism in the narrative one has to endure as the viewer! (It's A Lot.)
For some reason, it's not entertaining being shown only the lifetime of baggage that fictional others in fictional law enforcement are carrying. It did start to feel like 'The Motivations of Each Character' was a goal, but it gets dragged out too far (and over time/continuity jumps) and doesn't seem very well focused. And yet, while it takes too long, it also uses blatant short-cuts and visual interpretations that are too literal to take seriously.
It was also pretty ridiculous with heavy uses of force on the part of law enforcement, tacky over-the-top prop use, cheap scene dressing, etc.; the unsophisticated production qualities were a distraction much of the time. (OMG, the way they tried to 'middle-age' a couple of the characters with hair and makeup was both comical and horrifying. What a crappy, ageist job they did!)
The dialogue is lacking/bad at times, and also the direction, the acting; it's a sort of C- to D-grade sitch. Much time was spent muttering at the screen, "No one would do that." and "This is stupid."
Conceptually compelling, but execution-wise, it's poor. Bummer that it didn't reach a better place by Ep 3.
For some reason, it's not entertaining being shown only the lifetime of baggage that fictional others in fictional law enforcement are carrying. It did start to feel like 'The Motivations of Each Character' was a goal, but it gets dragged out too far (and over time/continuity jumps) and doesn't seem very well focused. And yet, while it takes too long, it also uses blatant short-cuts and visual interpretations that are too literal to take seriously.
It was also pretty ridiculous with heavy uses of force on the part of law enforcement, tacky over-the-top prop use, cheap scene dressing, etc.; the unsophisticated production qualities were a distraction much of the time. (OMG, the way they tried to 'middle-age' a couple of the characters with hair and makeup was both comical and horrifying. What a crappy, ageist job they did!)
The dialogue is lacking/bad at times, and also the direction, the acting; it's a sort of C- to D-grade sitch. Much time was spent muttering at the screen, "No one would do that." and "This is stupid."
Conceptually compelling, but execution-wise, it's poor. Bummer that it didn't reach a better place by Ep 3.