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This show is all over the place

posted 10 years ago by ScorseseStan
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Decent show with good potential but the editing is absolutely shocking in terms of timelines/storylines/pacing etc. And they just miss chunks out that make it hard to follow. i.e. episode 5 I think where the main guy goes to Japan and that's all the North Korean lady gets told, next scene she's a few hundred metres behind him in the snow, how?

The pacing is off as well. Did they really need 2/3 episodes to basically show us the entire assassination part again with just 2 more twist scenes? No-one wants to watch three hours of the show just to see a few minutes of new scenes and info, albeit important information, done dreadfully.

Contemplating whether to continue

[–] canuckteach 7 years ago

I'd carry on, Stan - this coming from a newbie to the series (it was added to Netflix recently). I agree that there's some lag-time where the plot only advances slightly, but the blend of character-relationships, pulsating action, and twist turns is like nothing I have seen, not even in the European mini-series I so admire.

The protagonist's ability to escape capture or termination, even under extreme duress, requires one to suspend one's belief, but that's ok: we can watch SAY YES TO THE DRESS, if we want plain reality.

:-) canuckteach (--: