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I've no idea what the director was trying to achieve with this film. It felt as if scenes were missing and I had no idea what was going on most of the time. A plot would have been a real asset to this film. My time was wasted watching it. I had no sympathy with the character played by George Clooney. He had no redeeming features and looked thoroughly miserable throughout the film. For some reason unknown to viewers, he was targeted by Swedish killers. He took orders from a strange man but chose to ignore some of his orders. He enjoyed sex with prostitutes and we saw a bit too much of that, but I guess the director thought that might be a selling point for the film.

A bunch of unlikely disjointed scenarios and no conclusions to any of the different stories. It just stops. No second season. I guess the scriptwriters had planned to expand on the stories in a second season, but really a first season of ten episodes needs some sort of conclusion, otherwise it's not a season, its just a collection of episodes. There is much jumping about in years and continents, probably to distract us from the plot (I use the term loosely) holes. It does look as if money was spent on this production as there are a number of exotic locations but it didn't work, too many different characters and no sense of where it was going. And then it just stopped, part way through the story lines.

Watch something else.

Excellent drama about a police officer on the edge. We follow him as he tries to juggle with pressures coming at him from all directions - family, colleagues, financial issues, criminal friends and angry drug dealers. Not a relaxing watch! Great performances from all the cast and Martin Freeman, in particular, was superb.