After looking at the other reviews posted here you might almost feel sorry for this show, which is, however, so utterly preposterous as to defy, well, everything. A quick reading of the other reviews will detail the several dozen enormous plot holes or nonsensical interchanges or terrible dialog. In brief: the David Tennant character makes every possible mistake a human could, the Dolly Wells character is so unsympathetic you keep hoping she'll just die, the Stanley Tucci character's supposed genius is revealed by... oh wait, it's never revealed, it's only announced. Over and over. (And whose idea was it to make a mass murderer cuddly and adorable?)
But what got me particularly riled ( as a journalist ) was that the journalist character clearly has no idea whatsoever how to be a journalist, starting with her inability to ask intelligent questions and her inability to show any integrity, and ending with this: no free-lance writer in the world, unless she's very, very, very wealthy -- and rather stupid -- would, on her own initiative, jump on a plane and fly across the Atlantic because she thinks she just might get a story from someone who doesn't want to talk to her. The creators of this mess don't even bother to give her an excuse for this nonsense. Then again, they don't bother to tell a coherent story either.
There's a good chance that watching this show will reduce your IQ by at least several points.
But what got me particularly riled ( as a journalist ) was that the journalist character clearly has no idea whatsoever how to be a journalist, starting with her inability to ask intelligent questions and her inability to show any integrity, and ending with this: no free-lance writer in the world, unless she's very, very, very wealthy -- and rather stupid -- would, on her own initiative, jump on a plane and fly across the Atlantic because she thinks she just might get a story from someone who doesn't want to talk to her. The creators of this mess don't even bother to give her an excuse for this nonsense. Then again, they don't bother to tell a coherent story either.
There's a good chance that watching this show will reduce your IQ by at least several points.