They made it! I mean, they succeeded in showing that having "Names" is not enough to deliver a good series! Quite like in sports: hiring all the best players doesn't mean you'll have the best team, or even a team!
To me the whole thing is just a pretext for music moments, and those are pretty good, even if I'm not a jazz fan. But where is the story? Who had that idea to kill Farid at the end of the first episode? Was Tahar Rahim called on another set? Who decided that Elliot would be continuously pissed off, so much that it sounds so odd? OK, we progressively figure out that he lost a son, but still he doesn't look "real", and neither his relation with his daughter nor the one with Maja do. I found that most of what is related to his character is missed. All of this is really a mess, as the Paris jazz club idea could have been a nice start for a good, well written, story... Actually, all sounds as if different people involved in this production had very different interests, and if each did what they wanted without thinking of what that would give as a final result... Such a mess!
