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I really enjoyed the first couple episodes, but by the end it felt like they were throwing in everything and the kitchen sink just to fill out six episodes. Come on, we have a by-the-books spy sub-plot, the mysterious Area 51-looking medical lab out in the sticks complete with nutso conspiracy theorist camped out, the churchy guy working with "troubled youths" and possible drug connection with Manchester toughs, the standard infidelity/jealous husband angle, the suspicious rich Swedish guy with the sick daughter, the sick daughter herself with her hunky French "nurse," the fisherman family with the father obsessed with the victim accidentally killing his son, the victim herself being special, not just your run of the mill Shetland mum but a super-special SPY who was specially gifted as a MATHS WHIZ. Then to have the predictable sexual assault storyline tossed in at the last moment leading us to the real killer. I was figuring we'd get a reveal that Noah was either Euan's son or the fisherman's son. I can see the fisherman developing a crush on her but wtf was up with Euan? His guilt led him to track down her killer, except he didn't? Calder's ex-bf warning her that he was so dangerous -- was he? Maybe I've watched too many of these shows. I was rolling my eyes so hard by the last episode. I say all this with chagrin because I really love this show and I really do like Calder and Tosh paired up. But someone needed to take a red pencil to this script.

I'd already cringed over any number of blunders in the first half hour but when she takes a call from her daughter while hiding in her dead lover's apartment with murderers coming up the stairs, I literally turned it off and walked away. Pu-leez. I'm disappointed cuz it's a great cast.

I watched the first episode and the last episode and am miffed I wasted 2 hours. What a bore.

Maybe I watched too much TV during covid, but I quit after episode 2 and reading the comments here, I'm glad I did. Everything in this show is something I've already seen somewhere else, and most of it is overused, lazy, and shallow. I'm ready for something new or different. The evil mining corp, the "scientists" doing vague secretive research, the drunk Inuits, everybody sees dead people in Ennis, a micro-organism that cures cancer or whatever. All that joyless bonking, the middle-aged "troubled" cop struggling to balance private life, parenthood, job, etc... what a yawn. All of it. The dialogue was just "off"... like the writer was going for a blend of film noir and Northern Exposure. It just did not work. I did love the look of it, though. Good direction, great art direction. It's a minority opinion, but I found the acting to be a huge problem. Jodie Foster's acting was horrible, awful, bad, pee-yew. Like she was trying way too hard, all the time. But I really liked Kali Reis' acting. She's got the goods. One reason why I hated this so much is cuz I just watched The Head and hated it too, for many of the same reasons.

I watched 3 episodes and gave up. This is one of the stupidest shows I've ever watched. Let's start with the bright green and electric blue cars that stick out like a sore thumb, especially for cops doing surveillence, yeah right. Randomly parking your helicopter in someone's field and then leaving the student sitting in it (I have a dentist appointment!) while you chase who/what/where? The nanny freaks out, steals the SD card, and runs -- but Maya just imagined the whole thing? It was a collection of tired predictable TV tropes that someone tossed in a paper bag and then arranged into a script. What a waste of time of all involved.

I'm watching this a year later and just want to add, for those of you interested in the murder of the Romanovs, the film "Nicholas and Alexandra" was very good. The screenplay was adapted from a book by Robert Massie written long before their remains were found. After the fall of the Soviet Union, more evidence came to light, and it turns out Massie's book did a good job of filling in the blanks. The only point where his account lacked important detail (imho) is the fact that most of the men who took part in the massacre were very drunk that night. The Whites were breathing down their necks, they were nervous and scared, and they wanted to get the hell out of dodge. It was a sloppy, horrific operation. They made a huge mess of it, it was dark and there were so many bodies to carry out and heap onto carts. The room was full of smoke and blood. Some of the victims were still moaning as they were being carried out. The forest was pitch black. One of the carts got stuck in the mud. They had to dump them temporarily that night and come back the next day to dig a better grave. They literally abandoned the Ipatiev house that night after the bodies were removed. When the Whites arrived a couple days later, they found everything as it had been, including the bloodstained walls and personal items left behind. Also the jewels were small and had been sewn into the gowns' seams so they'd be less obvious. It's an exaggeration to say the bullets bounced off the jewels.

The final episode would have been OK if they'd left off that whole black-and-white section in the first half about the kid. It was meant to tell us how Jason came to be so down and out in that 12-step meeting, and we could easily infer that from what we learned elsewhere without being bashed over the head by it. (I had never heard of Jason Segal before seeing this series so I know nothing of his past history.) I hated the whole Clara thing. It was a clunky plot device that didn't work. My other complaint is that Fredwynn's character was not as well developed as the others. We never really got much back-story on him. The game itself was original and fun. Overall, the series started out with an interesting premise that eventually resolved into just another "we need to connect with other people to be happy" story.

We both found season 2 very disappointing, in spite of many great actors. The writing just tried to shoe-horn in way too much stuff, which had nothing to do with the actual story, and much of it just made NO sense. Chee's character just seemed like a supreme dumbass, either bad writing or bad acting or both. Who goes on surveillance driving a car like that? The blond guy was supposed to be some superhuman monster who could voluntarily dislocate his shoulders to escape handcuffs and walk through a frozen desert with only one shoe -- yet is dumb enough to turn his back on the bad man with the gun? On the plus side, the music for season 2 was fantastic, though. We watched the one with Wes Studi last night and in spite of the lower budget, it was a much better show.

Tom was OK with pimping out his wife, metaphorically if not literally. And Shiv was OK with it too. Once she realized she could "win" by proxy with her lapdog husband in the driver's seat, she knew this was a great way to make her brothers pay for underestimating her.

Behind the times, just finished this.... Struck me: Lamb is the anti-Smiley. When we meet him, Smiley has been shoved out to pasture and is discredited like Lamb. He makes himself invisible by being ordinary, small, nondescript, and so does Lamb. It's just that with Lamb, he goes for the whole grungy drunk smoke working class dirty raincoat type. Smiley was the aging bachelor uncle, retired schoolmaster look. All that boozing and snoozing with Lamb is a cover story; he can sober up for field work any time he needs to. I knew Min or Louisa would die cuz they were happy together -- tired of that predictable trope. And River was just a dumbass throughout. They really are bad agents. My big gripe was the editing: Mom's plane was in the air way too long with London in the distance, River was writhing on the floor too long, the evacuation and crowd scenes went on too long. They were working too hard to cut back and forth between scenes. I see this all the time these days: time gets prolonged and shortened to make believe things are happening simultaneously when they just simply could not. But overall I love this show and have recommended it to friends. Hope they can keep it up with season 3.

I am catching up with episodes I missed when they came out and just have to say... I hope they fired the people doing Diane's hair, makeup and clothing for this season. Her hair looks yellowish and her foundation makeup looks powdery and too tan. She has always worn such gorgeous suits, often with beautiful coordinated necklaces, but this season she's in a lot of monochrome colors with weird geometric shapes that look vintage 1980s and vaguely J.C. Penney. Worst of all is the lipstick. Some horrid wine or cranberry color. The overall effect is to age her 10 years. I was always impressed by the way this show could make the women super-stylish and slightly sexy while still looking professional. Not here. And at home the decor in her bedroom/sitting room is that mauve I associate with 1990s. Star Trek Next Gen. Also I am really tired of the endless arguing. Every discussion immediately breaks down into pointless arguing. Last season leaned heavily on this, obviously meant to reflect the unfortunate dynamic paralyzing public dialog these days. Everybody wants to argue, nothing ever gets resolved, we cut to a new scene and the story moves on. We see this over and over. I find I can't remember how storylines wrap up because many of them don't -- they just peter out. I see enough of this crap in real life, don't find it entertaining. I am currently only hate watching the rest of this show. Although I love the Mandy Patinkin storyline.

To me Maxy seemed genuinely distracted, like she just found out she's pregnant.

So how did Tosh get out of that caravan?

In the earlier seasons, this did play a factor, as did having to take a ferry to get from one island to another. As the books got further into the rear view, it became less of an issue. Which is a shame cuz it was part of what ramped up the dramatic tension: the feeling of being isolated in these remote islands.

I am one of those people waiting for the whole thing to be done before watching, so I am only now starting. I just finished the second episode, where Jimmy & Tosh drive out to the junk yard when a body is found in a car there. Jimmy takes a look and says to Tosh: "It's her. It's Bryd," and they both act like Bryd's been missing and everybody's been looking for her, when in fact we just saw her at the dorm the night before, getting a text from Connor. Why did they both expect it to be her? Did I miss something?