by Crayotic Rockwell on Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:29 am
It's a decent watch don't get me wrong, but I'm often left gobsmacked at how ricockulous some of it can be, such as the Surveillance Ops team trailing them from 5 feet behind and pulling a full U-Turn in a busy street to keep the tail, c'mon (and then just to underscore it, Darwyn pulls the same technique later in episode 3)
And for someone trying to keep his identity secret, Darwyn comes across as the most obvious narc I've seen for a while, with all his whining and not so subtle questioning. He's the sort of guy you'd love to play poker with.
I also keep thinking about the scene where the FBI and NSA and others (including a very silly looking head of ops, who cast that guy?) are having a meeting to discuss the case, and they all blatently spell out their affiliations and what not for the audience at home.
I'm only mentioning this stuff because of the tone it seems to be going for feels close to "The Wire", yet it somehow seems to deliver less than "24" some of the time.
It's good, but how this show got on the AFI's 2005 list is a little beyond me (Then again, there wasn't that much to choose form this year if i remember rightly)