I knew from the trailers, that this would be a simple revenge thriller. I didn't expect it to be this much by the numbers.
Overall the story just isn't believable. The bad guys you spot instantly, all the way down to the "big" twist bad guy at the end, which is just really poor writing.
Worst of all, stretching the story to almost 8 hours makes it drag along. Antoine Fuqua, who directed the first episode, could have made this into a solid, 2 hour action movie.
I have no idea why they found the story and characters so compelling that they stretched it for so long. There is no development what so ever of our lead character and the story is just repetitive, generic and boring.
And as simplistic as the story is, they still feel the urge to throw in flashbacks every now and then to explain certain plot developments that are obvious and not in need of explaining. Give your viewers some credit.
This may be categorized as a thriller, but the thrills are absent.
Overall the story just isn't believable. The bad guys you spot instantly, all the way down to the "big" twist bad guy at the end, which is just really poor writing.
Worst of all, stretching the story to almost 8 hours makes it drag along. Antoine Fuqua, who directed the first episode, could have made this into a solid, 2 hour action movie.
I have no idea why they found the story and characters so compelling that they stretched it for so long. There is no development what so ever of our lead character and the story is just repetitive, generic and boring.
And as simplistic as the story is, they still feel the urge to throw in flashbacks every now and then to explain certain plot developments that are obvious and not in need of explaining. Give your viewers some credit.
This may be categorized as a thriller, but the thrills are absent.