Graceland

The series must have been meant to go at least a season more because it had a horrible ending. So unsatisfying. Just left me dangling.

I have watched this show 3 times all together AND I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND WHY IT ENDED LIKE THAT. SUCH A CLIFFHANGER. I loved this show from the day it debuted on Tv and I have never been this sad about a tv serie. ITS BEEN 5 years since it ended and I still can't suck it up.😢😢😭😣

Where to start? Everyone lies to everyone else about everything, which is fine as long as they stay focused on their cases, but when their lies and romantic entanglements interfere with their ability to maintain plot structure, we're all screwed. I'm one of those people who enjoys marathoning where TV shows are concerned. I stay focused for a few days or week and it's over. I move from scene to scene without commercial interruption and see if everything holds together. In Graceland, it's a study in human entropy. Everything is in a state of complete and utter chaos with little resolution without massive bloodshed, both physically and metaphorically. The price the audience pays for restitution is far too steep for the time one spends pushing through it. The series was a great concept, and I am completely convinced that had it not gotten so incredibly off track with the sub-plotting tied to, you guessed it: lies! it would have had a long run. The premise of inter-agency people working under one roof is way out there cool, but not at the expense of melodrama on a grand mal scale. I wish i could rewrite the entire damn thing from the moment it got off track and see what would have happened to all those viewers who decided to look elsewhere.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the show up till this point in the series. It began similar to other series in which, like the negative reviews have said, has all the clichés we've seen before, delivering an idea we've seen before. After the first couple of episodes I would have given it about a 5 compared to other USA shows like Psych and Suits which are strong 8 or 9s. But after these few episodes, the series begins to flip the clichés on their head. Without spoiling anything, the roles perceived at the beginning of the show are switched up with many of the characters holding a secret over their heads. The one secret that has began to shift the story line really has changed the structure of the show using dramatic irony to really give the show an interesting and dramatic twist. The twist and turns as well as the cliffhangers at the end of the episodes really hooked me and even if you don't appreciate the acting( which I still think is good enough) you should at least be able to appreciate the unpredictably towards the end of the series. In summary, I feel like the negative reviews are slightly justified but don't judge this series on the first episode as it really just sets the scene rather than beginning to further the story line of the show.

Graceland was such an underrated show that I had a blast watching. Graceland is the name of a beachfront house that was seized by the FBI and had become an undercover house for different departments of law enforcement (FBI, DEA, US Customs). It follows young FBI agent Mike Warren (Aaron Tveit) as he's put into Graceland and thrown into the fire of an undercover assignment. One of the other reasons he's there is to spy on his mentor Paul Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) to see if he's gone dirty. I really enjoyed all three seasons of this show and still mad to this day that it ended. The cast (Tveit, Sunjata, Serinda Swan, Manny Montana, Brandon Jay McLaren, Vanessa Ferlito) all do an excellent job. Give this show a try, I promise you'll have fun watching it!