The show is well produced, incredibly well cast, and manages to hold your attention with what is predominantly decent storytelling, accompanied by excellent directing and acting by the entire cast. The scenery plays a part too, and is effectively applied.
Where it all falls apart is the depiction of the main character. They expect you to believe that she is a genius hacker and consummate (yet scared) detective, while at the same time being naive, massively cognitively challenged and devoid of any sense of self preservation.
The one moment she is deploying creative, brilliant strategies to hack into anything and everything or astutely surfacing the minutest of detail from a situation in order to investigate. The next moment? She blindly stumbles into situations in spite of the most obvious clues and blurts out accusations that will so obviously compromise an investigation she feels more strongly about than anything else in her life.
There's nothng believable about this and much of the plot depends on this irrational character inconsistency - which they could have easily done without. To a large degree it ruins the story.
Where it all falls apart is the depiction of the main character. They expect you to believe that she is a genius hacker and consummate (yet scared) detective, while at the same time being naive, massively cognitively challenged and devoid of any sense of self preservation.
The one moment she is deploying creative, brilliant strategies to hack into anything and everything or astutely surfacing the minutest of detail from a situation in order to investigate. The next moment? She blindly stumbles into situations in spite of the most obvious clues and blurts out accusations that will so obviously compromise an investigation she feels more strongly about than anything else in her life.
There's nothng believable about this and much of the plot depends on this irrational character inconsistency - which they could have easily done without. To a large degree it ruins the story.
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