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Started out OK, but then fizzled out


Some very good actors, clever photography, good use of back ground music, and a nice pace, but in the ned, it disappoints. It seems inspired by "Damages" in its storytelling method.

While the first episode and half (approx) hold out a lot promise, the whole thing then devolves into a cartoonish and infantile leftist exposition on the evils of capitalism and the glories of public ownership -- as if giving public utilities over to the workers who work there would make those utilities better for the public. Right . . . think Chicago teacher unions. Disappointing political pamphlet which undermines what had been a good and suspenseful story for a bit.

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It was disappointing after a promising start but not to do with any left wing politics.

After all this is a United Kingdom that had to bale out private sector banks that failed and the same banks refused to live on the slogan of the free market and die but went to the government with cap in hand!

Just saying.


Its that man again!!

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