A jumble of grandiose cliches and implausible plots

A jumble of grandiose cliches and implausible plots.

Let's see, soul-mate at first sight, sexual cognoscenti with pure heart (and an innocent face too), older admirer resigned to Platonic love, Rube-Goldberg-ish cover-up plan where a simple staged accident scene would suffice, pass-code hint with improbable odds, letting the reckless and potentially dangerous protagonist live -- and hence more overly deception and intimidation schemes -- but killing off the already intimidated and harmless friend, intuition that sees through all deceptions, evil secret government agency (ESGA), supercilious villain played by actor who plays Nazis, super genius, adversary with nearly omnipotent control of the Internet (and mail boxes!), invention that could change humanity forever, invention that would threaten every ESGA on earth, ESGA's of the world united(!) to deal with situation, ESGA more interested in toying with protagonist than safe guarding or destroying dangerous knowledge, mathy-glyph gibberish covered wall, masked torturers in white robes, uber-Machiavellian villain turns human and switches side at the last minute, etc, etc.

The only element that keeps the series from becoming a big yawn is the existence of a male ingénue and that he looks as if he would cry any minute. (The last characteristics reminds one of Kristen Stewart's near-permanent expression of sadness in some of her roles.) I am sure that many would find this -- plus the gay love backdrop -- sufficiently fresh to redeem the series. I, however, find the entire thing rather unwatchable.