I just discovered this show. It's one of the most awful shows I've ever tried to watch. The first season dialogue was like a bad B movie. Spears' over acting was blek. The push and pull of power felt forced and there was a ton of redundancy. Dect. King was morally bankrupt. I don't think I've ever seen a more self absorbed and shallow character. She is on her third marriage and she sleeps with a subordinate, Spears, while acting like it's supposed to be normal and acceptable. They're both married at the time. She gets pregnant and is totally unaffected by the fact that she doesn't know who the father is and is running around on her husband and so far is passing the baby off as his. Her current husband is equally shallow with a gambling problem. She bails him out with a loan shark to the tune of $53k. Yep-a very manly character there. (Insert an eye-roll here) Spears acts like he is an alpha catch when he's a little man sniffing around his boss while playing the victim in his own relationship with his wife. He tries way too hard and it comes off like everything he says and does is forced. He is also not very attractive.
There was a ton of character shifting after the first season, but bad actors are still replaced with more bad actors...except the black actress. She was good.
It's also too obvious that the writers did not do statical analysis. Shows with all of that relationship drama and lust triangles NEVER make it unless it's daytime soaps. Every time the MC's are together, especially with cheating involved-the show will fizzle. Very few have been finessed enough to last. Castle, Bones, and still waiting to see-Magnum PI. They lasted because there is way more crime fighting plot than lust and romance to the stories. They're multi-layered-third dimensional plots. The couples also work as crime fighting teams. The couple in 'King' worked against each other. This show...this show was a melodramatic tragedy and sadly could have been great except for the lust drama, bad acting, and the shallow depths of a few of the characters. The criminal plots were spot on. A real shame.
There was a ton of character shifting after the first season, but bad actors are still replaced with more bad actors...except the black actress. She was good.
It's also too obvious that the writers did not do statical analysis. Shows with all of that relationship drama and lust triangles NEVER make it unless it's daytime soaps. Every time the MC's are together, especially with cheating involved-the show will fizzle. Very few have been finessed enough to last. Castle, Bones, and still waiting to see-Magnum PI. They lasted because there is way more crime fighting plot than lust and romance to the stories. They're multi-layered-third dimensional plots. The couples also work as crime fighting teams. The couple in 'King' worked against each other. This show...this show was a melodramatic tragedy and sadly could have been great except for the lust drama, bad acting, and the shallow depths of a few of the characters. The criminal plots were spot on. A real shame.