gpglenpeters

This is a refreshingly funny, engaging action-drama. Ultimately it's about family and being yourself, but a couple of things set it apart from your run-of-the-mill action shows, the quirky characters, the fresh dialogue and the consistently amusing comedy.

It's well-shot and directed with some excellent performances.

There's nothing revolutionary here but it's a reminder that TV can be good after so many poor shows over the last few years (looking at you Disney, and Rings of Power and Wheel of Time).

In a fairly barren landscape shows like this seem even more impressive.

Overall it's fun, quite light-hearted despite all the violence and murder, and you can't help but warm to the main characters even when they're killing people.

Even though it's early days this is one of my favourite shows of the year so far, and I suspect that come the end of the year it will still be in my top ten best shows of 2024.

This show is a bit of a mess from what I've seen so far. The pacing is too slow and boring to be entertaining. A slow build is fine, but this isn't that, it's a flat line for forty minutes and then a random explosion.

It can't be easy to make spy-craft dull and uninteresting but this show in this episode manages to do just that.

The characters aren't very likeable or engaging, and the acting feels a bit forced and manufactured rather than believable and naturalistic.

Their conversations up to this point are mundane and don't inspire me to want to know more about the characters or learn where the story is going.

Overall, it's a missed opportunity.

It's alright, engaging for the most part but ultimately lacking any real consequence for the characters.

That worked more effectively in the prequel 1883 where it is believable that people can get away with murder. But in this show it feels forced and gratuitous to make the Duttons seem cool.

Ultimately, it's not very believable which makes it difficult to care about any of the characters.

Beth is great, but otherwise I'm not really enamoured with any of the other main characters. The minor characters like Rip are more appealing and interesting and yet they're never given their due.

I can understand why this is popular but from a strictly story-telling point of view there is a lot that is lacking.

It wouldn't have take much more effort to make this show much better.