Axed! Thank God.

It's actually one of the better shows I've seen on the BBC for awhile. The money they waste on reality shows could be used for good dramas that we don't see anymore. I read that the BBC spent £22 million of the license fee on The Voice UK when they could have used that money for new series of Spooks, Waking the Dead, Hustle, Lark Rise to Candleford, etc, or new dramas instead of that reality show

Calling Hunted "too cerebral" is like calling My Family "Too innovative". Hunted really is not cerebral. Only someone who found the "riddles" in The Da Vinci Code challenging, would think so.

But you know what? It really doesn't have to be cerebral in order to be compelling. There is plenty of compelling drama that isn't cerebral. This show could very well have found its audience if the protagonist had been more interesting (not the actor's fault) or the story had relied less on a body count that is getting ludicrous and more on character driven drama. And believable characters. Also, I could have done with less of the Inferred Abilities and Mary-Sueing.

So far Sam makes every mistake in the book, like, for example, lingering for ever over her friend's file instead of just grabbing it - to make sure there will be a line of Expendable Bad Guys politely waiting their turn to get beat up - she is constantly getting caught, being found out and drinking poison as if she failed Spying for Dummies. And _still_ all the other characters keep referring to her as "the best in the field" etc. It reads like bad Harry Potter fanfic, with spies instead of wizards.

Basically, the characters are not very well developed which in turn makes the body count meaningless. If you make human life cheap and people uninteresting and expendable, you remove all sense of urgency or peril. "Oh, there goes another red shirted crew man."

You can't replace compelling intrigue with ultra violence and you can't cover up undeveloped writing by applying blue filter. Ultra violence and blue filters are something you add once you already have a script worth filming.

The script is clumsy. It makes clumsy use of tired tropes (Tropes are not bad in themselves, it is all in the execution. And some tropes are overused and should be avoided until they feel fresh again. This script went for all of the most tired tropes like a pig to truffles.) and the execution is also clumsy. If this had been a web series made by semi amateurs, I would have been _deeply_ impressed but it isn't. There is no kinder way of saying it. I'm not blaming the actors (much) and in fact, I'm not blaming the writers either. There's a base note that could have become something but the original script should probably have been developed more (like, involving a couple of writers who have actually met humans to help develop the characters)

This is producer fail.

And, in case you are wondering, as people tend to, why I'm even here if I hated it - I didn't hate it. I just didn't like it much either. I'm here because I was hoping to find spoilers for the few things that I wish to know - like, who the blank faced man is - because if I can find that out here, I won't have to watch any more episodes. And that goes back to my contention. There is something here - a single character that could have developed to something interesting, or a plot point that I actually care about having cleared up - that says that this could have been good. But now it isn't.

I do hope that the Huntedverse gets a reboot but I don't think Sam Hunter is interesting enough to be its hub, she would need a MAJOR rewrite for that to work. As the character is now, it is nigh on "My Immortal"-worthy.

I can see it as a web series centering on some other character. With a couple new writers attached. And without the bluefilter.

I've just finished watching episode 2 on The Movie Network in Canada and I don't understand why it got low ratings in the UK. It's very interesting and I'm definitely hooked. Going to keep watching for sure!