The good:
I suppose in the abstract, the message of casting harsh light on the exploitative nature of big finance. The script is okay.
The bad: The editing, the acting, the music. Once you see the editing mistakes, you can't unsee them. Lines delivered in one tone just to be cut at a different angle and they're speaking in a different register. Every character except the young tech guy and the Argentinian lady, might as well be cardboard puppets. But even them I didn't get to like.
I'm willing to overlook poor characterization if the subject matter is interesting enough. It isn't. Somehow the high stakes battlefield of financial misdealings and political power, the intrigue of a shadowy Wikileaks organization, and an unsolved murder, is utterly stale. How is that even possible? Maybe because of an indifferent protagonist who mumbles every line? I got to halfway through the final episode, something broke my habit of watching for a couple days and I've felt no compulsion to give it more time.
The bad: The editing, the acting, the music. Once you see the editing mistakes, you can't unsee them. Lines delivered in one tone just to be cut at a different angle and they're speaking in a different register. Every character except the young tech guy and the Argentinian lady, might as well be cardboard puppets. But even them I didn't get to like.
I'm willing to overlook poor characterization if the subject matter is interesting enough. It isn't. Somehow the high stakes battlefield of financial misdealings and political power, the intrigue of a shadowy Wikileaks organization, and an unsolved murder, is utterly stale. How is that even possible? Maybe because of an indifferent protagonist who mumbles every line? I got to halfway through the final episode, something broke my habit of watching for a couple days and I've felt no compulsion to give it more time.