Review of Greyzone

The German intelligence service informs the Swedish intelligence service that a terrorist organisation is moving matériel into Sweden. What do the Swedes do? Send a single intelligence officer, aided by a local policeman to intercept the shipment. That's right, one special and the local plod to intercept a terrorist shipment. In the course of the inspection the copper gets a bullet in the head from a person or persons unknown while the driver legs it merrily away, running up the road having been shot "through and through" by the agent. That's right, happily running away despite a bullet hole from front to back. This occurs in a dockyard, with fences all around, bullets flying about, in the middle of a terrorist incident and yet still the wounded driver manages to escape capture. That's right, in a dockyard, secure fences, security everywhere with a terrorist alert ongoing, and a bullet hole in him, he manages to escape. And this is only the beginning. By episode two we have had a SWAT team perform a raid on premises where they believe the suspect to be hiding. But, oh!, they forget to lift the carpet and find the trap door leading downstairs to where the wounded driver is hiding. And, oh!, they're so busy bursting in through the front door waving their guns at every one they forgot to put somebody out back, so when that devious, shot "through and through" suspect climbs out of the back window and runs like an olympic sprinter through the Swedish streets there is no one there to catch him. Next, we have a young mother being coerced into helping another member of the terrorist cell by threats against her son, who is on holiday with his father in Paris. She blithely walks into her secret research facility and steals a USB sticks worth of information, pointedly ignoring every opportunity that presents itself to call out for help without the terrorist knowing. That's right, endless opportunities to blow the gaff without endangering herself or her son and she does nothing. It turns out that her son is to be returned from Paris, by the French police, because his father has had an accident. She cooperates in bringing the boy back from police custody so that the terrorist can have them both within his power. Yes, again, that's right. She facilitates the removal of her son from police custody in Paris to her terrorist captor's custody in Copenhagen. I can't go on. It's too painful. How can you build anything with any credibility on this? The acting may be fine, the dialogue can be good, the atmospherics and settings may be just the ticket, I could exhaust a thesaurus on synonyms for drivel in describing this farrago of nonsense but I couldn't do it justice. I simply use the word that my grandmother used when she was confronted by twaddle like this. It's utter squit. I'm sure you'll know what she was talking about.