Deep State

If you like the thriller / spy / action genre i think you'll like this show.

Lots of characters to root for and lots to wish ill upon, international espionage, entangled allegiances and competing self interest.

Walter Goggins enters the scene as a primary character in Season 2 and gives a great performance.

Fans of Game of Thrones may recognize Gendry but Joe Dempsie (who plays Harry Clarke) shows he's got range. Karima McAdams plays another primary character from Season 1, Leyla Toumi, and her intensity echos in every scene she's in.

The rest of the supporting cast are thoroughly solid.

You can totally watch Season 2 even if you haven't seen Season 1.

The writers of their show must hate their wives. The wife (Lynne Renee) is ever so annoying, continually to get Max (Mark Strong) into deeper troubles. Would have been much more pleasant to watch with the wife's role reduced.

The show is good, filmed good, with decent soundtrack and good acting, maybe not the best possible, however good enough. It is an interesting story for the first season with great twists, action scenes and outcomes. As for the second season, I think it is where the show gets closer to a cliches for that type of stories and some of the characters and their actions are a bit overexaggerated. Still, good enough, but to me is more like not necessary season and a weaker one, so that's why the combined score of the first and the second is 7 stars for me, I'd give 8 for the first, 6 for the second. And don't get me wrong, it is worth watching.

This is really great series to watch. It's actually scary how governments and business shady businesses are intertwined and can instigate wars. With this being a fiction, there is, I'm afraid a lot real elements in it. Entertaining and yet horrifying to watch.

Densely intricate, multi layered spy thriller. The pilot looks great, if they can keep this up it should be compelling tv.