Eradicus

Really enjoyed this series, one of the best I have had the pleasure of watching in many years. There are great performances throuughout, fantastic dialogue, with great humour, veering from sharp wit into pure farce, thoroughly entertaining throughout. Justin Theroux is stellar.

I think in terms of positives I'll say the performances are generally good, I think Uzo Aduba especially gives a great performance, Taylor Kitsch too, but with those characters being the purely fictional/composite characters they got all the best dialogue and heaviest scenes, and the wider point to make on that is that the script was not particularly sophisticated, it had a very childish and immature streak throughout, something that played out not just in dialogue but with a fair few pointlessly indulgent visuals, along with an inexplicable and at first confusing deployment of a tired cliche: imagined conversations with a deceased entity, namely Broderick's Richard Sackler character with his long-dead father. Why, for what purpose? What, if anything, about his character had suggested this inner monologue/paternal overhang ('daddy issues') was central to anything he had done, or anything about his character? It just seemed like a lazy gimmick, and it was not the only one. A shame given the material they had to work with was plenty good enough to do better with.