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Drizmod said:
Just to add. Why did they start shouting when they spotted the serial killer in the shopping mall? Surely they should have covertly went up to him and arrested him. By shouting they gave him enough time to escape.
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Because Weston is more than Ryan's obsessive little buddy, he's your last reveal of the season as a mole with orders to get close to the hero and strike him down right before he reaches in goal in oh so dramatic fashion (pure theory of course, but with this show and it's love of random heel turns I can't work out if the things that made me think Weston might be a mole are foreshadowing or just dodgy writing and acting). As absolutely stupid as many things in the last 2 episodes have been, everybody involved looks even stupider if there isn't a mole within the FBI unit (seriously as stupid as this Roderick business is, it's even worse if there isn't a decent reason Joe's people can always be in the right places at the right time)

Of course that theory may have ridden away in a bulletproof helicopter out of nowhere to a mansion with a hundred other theories that came out of nowhere.
 
Just because Weston formerly was part of the witness protection division, does not mean that he remains privy to information about the whereabouts of witnesses under federal protection.

That whole episode was a waste of time and effort, and what manager comes into a job half way through, runs roughshod over the whole thing, and expects that things will get better?

I'm sorry but this show, is really starting to get on my nerves
 
Most recent episode, oh dear, what a shambles. Sloppy writing, do they think their audience are morons? I'm only watching because of Bacon and even he isn't delivering anything special.
 
It's fairly sloppy and implausible, yet the reveals and twists (regardless of how ludicrous they are) are done at the right pace so I am still watching.

I keep thinking they'll show us what happened to the "gay" couple as they have appeared on the last 2 episode recaps, but no cigar, so far.


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qqg3 said:
Most recent episode, oh dear, what a shambles. Sloppy writing, do they think their audience are morons? I'm only watching because of Bacon and even he isn't delivering anything special.
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It was bloody awful. It's now less about a group of seemingly normal people who have decided at some point in their boring lives to become super-intelligent serial killers, and more about how completely incompetent the FBI are. I almost found myself rooting for Mr Murder guy (I can't even remember his name) and his merry gang of MENSA-eligible followers until he went from being calm and collected, to drinking himself into a stupor and stabbing one of his own.

Another one of the followers turns out to be a cop. What a twist...again. How are all these insane people getting into law enforcement? What's this, the third one now?

And moron FBI lady decides that, after arriving to the scene where some of the suspects are known to be, she'd prefer not to call for back-up and instead neglects to take the keys out of the suspects' car so they can make a nice clean escape.

This plot clearly isn't working as a series, and the writers are just writing what they want to have happen and wrapping the circumstances around it, instead of actually making what they want to happen work within the reasonable expectations the viewer would have.

I dread to think what will happen in the second season of this tripe.
 
I did enjoy it but now it's descending into a sloppy, lazy snorefest. I'll give it another episode but I'm getting fed up with it.
 
For some reason the yanks seem to like it, second most watched program last monday night with 8 million watching. They've already renewed it for season 2 :/
 
Well, I'm done with it. Started watching the most recent episode last night, and the scene where the woman fires the speargun at someone in a busy cafe and then casually leaves unchallenged by anyone was enough to make me delete the episode and the series link on my Sky box.

I've had The Pacific Blu-rays unopened on my shelf for months, I think I'll put the time towards watching that instead.
 
Losing interest here also

Too many " Just shoot them!" points where they mess around with idle chat trying to build some kind of suspense

Might keep watching but cant see where its going to go to remain entertaining
 
I've given up. My Sky box decided it wanted to record tonight's episode, I soon put a stop to that.

If it hadn't shown so much potential to be rather excellent at the start, I'd probably still be watching it now just to pass the time. It set itself up to be an intelligent, gritty thriller-drama series and then went full-retard on the "Everyone is a follower!" gimmick and made the FBI look like a bunch of incompetent goons. With all the plotholes it's as if pages went missing from the script without anyone noticing.
 
Highly trained federal marshal gets gunned down because he'd decided the best course of action was to stand tall right in front of a door when he'd seen two assailants outside armed with micro-uzis on the video cameras?
 
TheVoice said:
If it hadn't shown so much potential to be rather excellent at the start, I'd probably still be watching it now just to pass the time.
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I agree the first episode was so epic, that scene with the woman with the tattoo's stabbing herself in the eye was like WOAH :eek:

Makes me lol when every week they say there's going to be scenes of graphic violence when in fact there's hardly been anything since that first episode.
 
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