Zed-Runner

This is, quite literally, one of the worst things I've ever seen. The central mystery is obvious from the get go, the acting is mind numbingly bad, and the fight choreography is so sloppy and poorly shot it makes one wonder if they handed the camera to 6 year old. Character motivations change from one scene to another based on the needs of the plot and still they do some of the dumbest things imaginable. There is a scene that has an escape pod full of prisoners picked up by security forces who know there are also surviving escaped prisoners on the planet below, but they leave, travel millions of miles to a headquarters of sorts and it's there they ask if they should go back to the planet and search for survivors. That's not a joke. Every single thing that happens is a result of luck, coincidence or contrivance. There isn't a single honest, organic plot development in two episodes. It all plays out like it was written by a child. Dreadful.

Just to highlight how terrible it has gotten I present the following chain of events, which serves as the bulk of the narrative of episode 4: Navarro's sister suffers a psychotic break and is found by Navarro at a shipwreck in the middle of nowhere nearly frozen to death. Navarro convinces her to check into a mental health facility. In a town with a population of about 600 people, there's a mental health facility. Anyway, she checks in and Navarro leaves. About ten minutes later the sister calls and tells Navarro she's fine. Cut to the sister back at the same shipwreck, stripping naked, and walking out into the frozen waste. So a mental health facility will check in a patient, and once the family mender of that patient is out of site, they'll just let that patient, who is a clear suicide risk, waltz right back out the door. If that doesn't defy belief enough for you, this happens: Navarro gets a call a whopping hour or two later from the coast guard. They found her sister's body floating in the ocean. So now we have a naked body in the ocean that the coast guard just happens to stumble upon, they make a positive ID in spite of her being naked, and call Navarro to break the news. It is so insanely stupid and so absurdly impossible I can't believe no one at HBO stepped in and re-wrote the entire thing. This is what you get when talentless content creators think their audience is stupid.