At this point, I'm wondering how much longer I should keep trying with this show. Granted, the title sequence is freaking amazing, a couple of the cast members are quite beautiful, and ... well, I'm not sure I have anything else good to say. If the show is "giving homage" to the movies and TV programs it copies, why include movies and TV programs from after the '80s (such as 2013's "Under the Skin") to rip off? That doesn't work.
This episode really takes the cake. Shaky set pieces reminiscent of "Plan 9 From Outer Space," terrible acting, inconsistencies in the physics, contrived scripts where character motivation seems as random as a Family Guy cutaway, and plot holes just brushed away.
An example of sloppy writing: the Russians somehow overhear the spying trio's noisemaking over the sound of the pouring rain, but later in the very same episode, one of the spying characters makes little attempt to hide himself from being clearly visible to the Russians he's spying on. There's (supposedly) tension when it serves the story, but then no appropriate concern over much scarier situations.
My friends tell me it gets good, so... I'll press on. It's got potential. I just don't see how people get sucked into this, at this point.
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