WARNING: SPOILERS, THOUGH NOT HUGE ONES
I'm writing my review of Episode 1 rather than the whole series because I have to assume it was greenlit after more than just the pilot. That said, what a miserable anti-hero they're trying to convince us to root for. What have we learned about him so far? 1) He can't fight. Or doesn't try. One of the two. 2) He's a terrible businessman. 3) When in possession of potentially lucrative photos, he either loses them or fails to make any money from them. 4) He was dismissed from the military. During the war. One assumes for conduct unbecoming. 5) The one thing he did discover, case-wise, we didn't actually see him find out. 6) When his ex-wife denies their son a toy because she's not willing to pay a cent (the 1931 equivalent to $0.17 today), he doesn't even try to point out that the kid is the one being punished. 7) When offered $6,000 for his failing dairy business (the 2020 equivalent of $101,000), he turns it down. From the woman who seems to like sleeping with him regardless of his indifference to her. And even though he's apparently so broke that he was one cent short of sending his son a Christmas gift. 8) When he seems to be connecting with the mother of the victim, he fails to find out literally ANYTHING from her. He asks her not a single question.
All in all, I can't count the ways (oh, yeah, eight) how much I dislike Mason. I was literally yelling at the screen at his seeming incompetence in his professional and personal lives. I'll give it another episode, but right now, I'm hurt that the show runners want me to root for this guy. I liked Thomas Covenant better.
I'm writing my review of Episode 1 rather than the whole series because I have to assume it was greenlit after more than just the pilot. That said, what a miserable anti-hero they're trying to convince us to root for. What have we learned about him so far? 1) He can't fight. Or doesn't try. One of the two. 2) He's a terrible businessman. 3) When in possession of potentially lucrative photos, he either loses them or fails to make any money from them. 4) He was dismissed from the military. During the war. One assumes for conduct unbecoming. 5) The one thing he did discover, case-wise, we didn't actually see him find out. 6) When his ex-wife denies their son a toy because she's not willing to pay a cent (the 1931 equivalent to $0.17 today), he doesn't even try to point out that the kid is the one being punished. 7) When offered $6,000 for his failing dairy business (the 2020 equivalent of $101,000), he turns it down. From the woman who seems to like sleeping with him regardless of his indifference to her. And even though he's apparently so broke that he was one cent short of sending his son a Christmas gift. 8) When he seems to be connecting with the mother of the victim, he fails to find out literally ANYTHING from her. He asks her not a single question.
All in all, I can't count the ways (oh, yeah, eight) how much I dislike Mason. I was literally yelling at the screen at his seeming incompetence in his professional and personal lives. I'll give it another episode, but right now, I'm hurt that the show runners want me to root for this guy. I liked Thomas Covenant better.