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... the extreme popularity of several of the actors in this series cannot help save it from itself... it's like saying anything not positive about them is somehow sacrilegious

... the acting and production values are not the albatross... it's the tedious, at time very boring storyline-script that's hard overcoming... first couple episodes were painfully-"slow-burning"... with the remaining four hardly getting much better... maybe E8 raising rating up a notch (and possibilities for next season)

... one reviewer repeating foreshadowing over and over and over, and they were right, for we know from the very beginning pretty much the entire premise of the production... spending three and a half hours buried continually in it, was more than undesirable (to just get to the ending)

... yes, lengthy film or five-six episodes at most... and it was the final series one episode was the most interesting-intriguing... keep that going (hopefully) throughout a second season, and it will have made tediousness of season one bit more worthwhile.