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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The acting and dialogue is some of the worst I've ever seen. From everyone.
The story is ****ing nuts -- at least S1 was, then it got more nuts as it went along.
And yet...I watch it? I really don't know why. It's bad. I mean everything about it is just god-awful. Yet here I am.
I think I'm 3 episodes in to S2 and I think ultimately the answer is that I will watch any spy shit, no matter how awful it is. And when the wife hasn't quite realized that it's shite so we can watch it in the evenings, things just tend to work out.
But anybody trying to compare this to, say, Jack Ryan - they're just out to lunch. It ain't in the same stratosphere.
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They're doing what they need to do with the material. We live in the era of fake moon landings, puppet presidents, and the Deep State. You can't really do spy stuff anymore and make it entertaining unless it's just bombastic. We are just numb to the "government corruption" storyline playing out in real life. So they suspend reality and give us a show that is really just pure entertainment. I mean, I could poke holes in the tech parts of the story until I'm blue in the face. It doesn't matter. The show is fun.