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Love the setting in S.Korea, some actions scenes are ok and here anything positive ends. It's very superficial, painfully predictable, and overall boring.

Such a bad, bad, horribly boring, wooden dialogues! Badly written and visibly just almost read from prompter by actors. You don't have to explain everything with worlds, even to kids! Very shallow effort. Such disappointment.

One of those shows, which doesn't comply with algorithms aiming for something new and fresh. Even in the fourth season, which is difficult. But it's good that's the last season, looking forward for some closure before it goes downhill. Still it has dark humor, great acting, sharply written. A treat!

Another victim of 'netflixation' by algorithms catering to all, instead trying to find it own footing. Promising premise at first, then diluted. Not really an espionage, neither Sorkin's White House bored down to some office melodrama. Fortunately you can keep fast forwarding those parts. Script feels like written by AI, pretends to be smart, but quite empty and meaningless. Critics calling it 'extraordinarily smart' are either joking or not too smart.

Mixed bag. Throws at you believable international political scenario (which is interesting) and two main great actors (really great!), but then 'netflixize' it to adjust to some kind of algorithm to please everyone watching. So the diplomats innerworkings become unrealistic soon enough and office melodrama becomes tiring and uninteresting. Plot twists becomes just silly. Promising show wants to be everything in one and in the end becomes diluted. Surprised some critics claim it's 'extraordinary smart' (Chicago Tribune) or 'rich stew' (San Frrisco Chronicle) - did we really lower our expectations so much or that's just nexus of critics and producers helping each other here? It's serviceable fun sometimes, but really helps you can fast forward scenes - otherwise would be too dull and painful to watch. If it's really extraordinary smart, rather 'new smart', nothing else.

Total madness! Something completely different and fresh. It takes you on the ride flashing pop-culture, religion and other motifs, all wrapped up in a fast paced comedy with great acting. Honestly you don't have time to analizie what's happening and that's partly fun of it too. Enjoy the ride!

It's one of the best show ever, closing on Breaking Bad and The Wire. Definitely NOT 'another show about billionaires'. Sure, it shows to some extent how rich are detached from reality, but above all this series is about dysfunctional family, lack of love and desperate craving for it. It's universal, just packed up in billionaire attire, luxury settings, cars etc. The writing and characters are brilliant. Hard to watch. I don't know if there is a single character who is not 'the worst human', you can pity them in one scene and hate in the next one. Writers and actors did here something extraordinary. Even the huge plot twist almost few episodes into the season, seems spot on. Well played show runners! Be bold and fresh, that's the recipe for the great show.

Watchable, but often wooden. The romance plot boring, the overall plot - after few weeks I don't remember what was really about. You cannot just flash some locations and do few killings to make it stick. Some good actors deserve better script. Not horrible, not good, just meh..

Updated: Out of 7 episodes so far, only the 5th, is well done and interesting. The rest being predictable and preaching candy wrapped in great actors names, is mostly very uneven and wasted opportunity. First episode is maybe still ok as an introduction, second has great ideas there, but somehow the end us wasted opportunity (underwhelming and predictable). Third one instead of showing destruction of Miami is wasted on other stuff (don't want to spoil it), the ending is so disgustingly sugary that it offends intelligence of viewers. Some people would stop watching the series here. Fourth episode is wasted for clumsy rehearsal of some white house procedural drama, flashy but pretty empty and again predictable. Only the 5th one has something to say and show. Happens in India, shows the heatwave effects (so called wetbulb effect) and how horrible is for average human beings. And first time in the series really shows what it means for majority of the people in the world - working class, poor from outiside developed countries. So far we could think that climate change only touches lifes of middle class from the West, and it's really more of the question if you can buy more comfortable mode of survivial. Till that episode it doesn't include working class and poor (even poor from US and Europe) as if they would not exist or they would be a mere background like wild animals going to extinct. 5th episode is well made, has finally flavor of something authentic (people speaking and showing their feeling in their mother language - still it's being reduced because apparently American viewers cannot read subtitles) and shows mortal danger and helplessness of climate changes. That could be shown in Miami episode, but choose to go for some moral arguments and preaching. In India we have at least a glimpse of how mortifying and real the future might be. If antalogu would keep 5th episode formula would get 9 stars, but for all the too obvious preachiness, wasted ideas and focusing on middle class sanitized troubles, it get generous 3 stars. Can only hope that the rest of episodes are different. Updated: After watching now 7 episodes - it's pretty obvious that for creators the only people worth making series about are the ones from rich West, and global South is just some non-existent background, mentioned briefly only on radio/news. Even animals are getting more attention than real people living in India, Bangladesh, African countries etc. Dropping my to 1 - there is literally one episode happening in Global South. Shame.

Funny, surprising, separate stories in episodes keeping it fresh and even with some predictable structure is still great TV. Very fresh and would never though that it can be called by some losers 'woke'. Some people just see 'woke' in everything, looking to label everything. Really fun show!

Great stuff! Some real spycraft in a comedy, dark humor sauce. You laugh and then see it's kind of real, because somebody dies. That's hard to balance and show runners are geniuses. Very original and keeping style and pace from the first season. Great acting, great dialogues, really cool.

It's fast and fun. Well made. Maybe not great, more serviceable and enjoyable TV in the spy genre. After 2 episodes I can say it's promising.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]