It started with a good premise even if there weird theme music was jarring. However, by late in the second season, it just became unwatchable. The dialog is terrible and the storylines are simply laughable. I like Dylan as an actor but the role they wrote for him makes him look like a cartoon villain from a Bond movie. The guy is a major mobster who has killed dozens of people along with 100 different other crimes but suddenly he is the nation's cyber expert working for the FBI?...and the world's leading crypto currency expert as well????
Speaking of which, the use of "super smart girl" is so over. Real cyber teams have hundreds of people working together. This is because there are many types of technology and no one person could know ever system type, every computer language, and every decryption key. The crew of the Enterprise makes more sense talking about the warp reactor than the drabble the say on this show. Maybe someone could crowdfund so the show could hire a technical consultant.
While all the is going on, it appears that New York has been shut out by the Feds. International crimes, domestic terrorism, cyber crimes and terrorism, are handled by the organized crime unit of NY in some non-secure police warehouse. FBI, NSA, and DHS are no where in the picture except to pick up criminals. Its pretty odd that the very agencies tasked with leading these investigations are nowhere to be seen.
Finally you have Det Stabler's family that appear from time-to-time when it is convenient and then magically disappear. Wife is dead, son into drugs, mother has early onset dementia but everyone comes and goes as they please. Det Stabler disappears for weeks or months but everything is fine. It is just so poorly written that you wonder what happened. My best guess is that previous Law & Order shows had self-contained stories. Here the stories run the entire season, or at least 2 in the latest and the material simply doesn't hold up to the quality of single episode shows. After Season 2, Episode 11, I pulled the show out of my Hulu favorites and drop it from recommended as well.
Speaking of which, the use of "super smart girl" is so over. Real cyber teams have hundreds of people working together. This is because there are many types of technology and no one person could know ever system type, every computer language, and every decryption key. The crew of the Enterprise makes more sense talking about the warp reactor than the drabble the say on this show. Maybe someone could crowdfund so the show could hire a technical consultant.
While all the is going on, it appears that New York has been shut out by the Feds. International crimes, domestic terrorism, cyber crimes and terrorism, are handled by the organized crime unit of NY in some non-secure police warehouse. FBI, NSA, and DHS are no where in the picture except to pick up criminals. Its pretty odd that the very agencies tasked with leading these investigations are nowhere to be seen.
Finally you have Det Stabler's family that appear from time-to-time when it is convenient and then magically disappear. Wife is dead, son into drugs, mother has early onset dementia but everyone comes and goes as they please. Det Stabler disappears for weeks or months but everything is fine. It is just so poorly written that you wonder what happened. My best guess is that previous Law & Order shows had self-contained stories. Here the stories run the entire season, or at least 2 in the latest and the material simply doesn't hold up to the quality of single episode shows. After Season 2, Episode 11, I pulled the show out of my Hulu favorites and drop it from recommended as well.