Reviews

This is a review of the whole season, all 7 episodes. Don't listen to the 6+ stars, which are almost exclusively of the first 3 episodes.

This show is DUMB. They had a great opportunity to do something with consumerism, blind obedience to authority, and mainstream American culture, but the writers fail miserably. Allie dictates how his family lives while on the run from the US gov't for some unexplained reason. The kids and his wife are obviously miserable, but he doesn't care, and ultimately they don't care that he doesn't care.

The show's pacing is awful: we're on the run in a chase, and then suddenly there's time for a shallow heart-to-heart when one of the whiny kids decides that the best time to ask questions is while the cops/cartel/NSA is hot on their tails. The urgency of the situation is constantly met with a frustrating lack of answers, but somehow the kids are satisfied and back on the run they go.

Sure, the show sets up the irony that Allie hates capitalism and how it throws away nonconsumers, while he himself buys his way out of problems and throws away the humans that help him along the way. But Allie is never confronted with that hypocrisy, and his family never learns anything. They remain blissfully unaware of their own monstrosity, content to destroy as many lives as necessary to get to their dream life on the beach in Central America.

TLDR: the show and its characters end exactly where they began. There's no development and no growth.