Reviews

I was looking forward to this show when I saw the actors involved, unfortunately I could not make it through episode one. If you buy into the story you might enjoy this but if you have the ability to think logically you will be picking apart the flaws in the script within the first 20 minutes. The second in charge at MI6 finds out who poisoned his immediate supervisor and does not arrest the person because of a past professional and personal relationship with her. She is a self proclaimed "former" SVR officer and he just takes her word for it. His wife has a friend who works at the CIA who suddenly shows up in London for a visit as soon as her husband takes command at MI6 and the wife just starts confiding her husbands suspicious behavior to her CIA friend.

I had this rated as high as a 9 through 4 to 5 episodes but it took a dive down to 7 by the end. In the beginning the main character (Owen) admirably and adeptly navigates the cesspool of backstabbing and politics. As the episodes progress his immaturity and ignorance escalate to the point of being annoying. His confiding in his friends and his use of them in his work puts them in danger more than once. I believe the writers were trying to show his vulnerabilities but by the end of the season he's just incredibly naive to the point of being an idiot. As one example in episode 7 he facilities an international bank deal from the US to Geneva, Switzerland but doesn't factor in the time difference, a 12 year old would know to do that but a lawyer working for the CIA doesn't? Another example he tells one of his roommates that he is going to Geneva, then while he is there he tries to call the other one. They wind up getting personally involved in the operation. At this point it felt as if the 3 roommates where in junior high or were characters in Scooby Doo. The acting of the supporting cast was excellent aside from the main character and his roommates. This had so much potential it's sad how they (writers, director) seemed to have lost control of this show.

....you wind up with bad action scenes and ruin the storyline. I don't believe they have a combat veteran on the set as an advisor, if they do he or she is a REMF. This is evident in the opening action sequence which is suppose to take place in Afghanistan. The alleged special forces squad charges up the open terrain of a hillside to rescue a teammate even though there is the cover of trees on both sides of the hillside. Of course one of them gets shot from the tree line. In the meantime the squad member they are trying to rescue has taken the machine gun nest on top of the hill which he abandons to come down to his teammates leaving the machine gun untouched for the enemy to reuse in the future.

I WAS WRONG! It's complete political bias. The producers of this wasted a great opportunity to inform only to end up fear mongering. In the 1st episode they talk about the US being at the brink of nuclear war during the Nixon administration and then jump directly to the Trump administrations but failed to mention the one time we came the closest to nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.

Seems like most of the movies and series these days are either super heroes stories or some type of dystopian future, this series is the later. A mother and son get separated as Manhattan gets walled off from the rest of the country (sound familiar?). She supposedly spends the next 8 years searching for him all around the country except in the most obvious pace "where she last saw him"🙀. I hung in for 4 episodes but Rosario Dawson's character is so naive that she doesn't realize that her actions have consequences in spite of her self righteous attitude. Up to this point she is responsible for an acquaintance being killed along with a friend.

Not really sure why Neeson keeps making these generic C movies. He lost me about 20 minutes into this one when on his suggestion the character Dusty is released from police custody, at Neeson's request, after Dusty commits DUI, resisting arrest and aggravated battery on four police officers. Just not going to happen no matter how much pull you have.

.....to waste all these talented actresses in such a poorly written script. This movie should have ended at the 53 minute mark when they were first in possession of the device that could destroy the world, all they had to do was take a hammer to it, which takes them another hour into the film to do.