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Another commenter said that they were surprised that this documentary wasn't biased against China. I'd go even further, I felt that Michael Wood bent over backwards to whitewash China's image.

China deserves every bit of criticism it gets. It is a wholly corrupt and inhuman communist state. Perhaps we need a show like Frontline to document all of China's atrocities and their desire to dominate the world by any means necessary.

While the Chinese people have accomplished great things over the millennia, they are also guilty of ongoing attempts to destabilize their region and the world.

This is history up close and personal. While interesting and entertaining, it lacks wider perspective.

Many cop shows out of Great Britain are far superior to those in the United States. From Prime Suspect through Foyle's War, Vera, Endeavor, Margret, and many others. But not this one. This show is so plodding and dull it is almost unwatchable. There isn't an actor who is interesting enough to hold this show. Granted, it's hard to compete with the actors in those other shows like Helen Mirren, Michael Kitchen, Rowen Atkinson, etc, But these people are only going to be stars in community theater. And even worse is the writing. It's primarily an unimaginative soap opera focusing on characters we don't care about. Do yourself spa favor and skip it.

Randy Newman's tongue-in-cheek song finished that line "...no reason to live." In this case it should be, "...no reason to be lead actors." Ya, sure, lots of shorties have made a go as action heros, despite the challenge of believability. But this stand-on-a-box Jay Hernandez totally lacks the gravitas of Tom Sellick. Of course Sellick is eight or more inches taller than Hernandez. But Jay suffers not just from being short. As someone else here says, he's cute. That's about it. Plays an ex Navy Seal. Right. LMAO.

Sellick has never been a great actor. That's why he never really made it in film. But Sellick does have presence and an outsized personality which is why he's succeeded. The little guy taking his role has none of that.

The rest of the cast, and the one episode I bothered to watch, was pretty lame. Just another failed retread here. Yet another example of how Hollywood is incapable of coming up with anything new or original.