Floressas

Good Lord, what happened here?! No matter how much money was spent producing this crap, it should never have aired. It's just an embarrassment. No one talks or acts the way the writers imagined it here, not even Inhumans. The story was thin and at times completely illogical. I wanted to watch every Marvel show, but this was just unbearable.

There was a time when Netflix only had three original shows, House of Cards, Orange is the new black and this one. I had high expectations, with Netflix's track record and the promising cast. Maybe the contrast between expectation and reality is to blame that I felt so bitterly disappointed. I was bored, the dialogue was cliché and I have never seen Famke Janssen act worse than in this show.

It really improved in season 2 but this is by far the worst of the Netflix Marvel shows. The supporting cast does a great job but as soon as Danny Rand appears on screen, opens his mouth or - worse - begins to fight, I have to force myself to watch. Finn Jones is terribly miscast, has only groan-worthy lines and just isn't able to make Danny a sympathetic and understandable character. This is even more apparent because Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and the Punisher are cast to perfection. Just watched it to complete all Marvel Netflix shows.

How could they do this to Hayley Atwell?!? Cancelling Agent Carter for this run-of-the-mill legal bla-bla with such bad dialogue that it hurt my ears! It's been a few years now that it aired and I'm still furious. The 2,5 stars are just for Hayley.

I only rated six shows with five stars, and this is one of them. I have rarely seen a cast that is so absolutely, incredibly amazing, I would have to add an infinity of adjectives to do it justice. The scope of the story and the investigations is small but that is its greatest strength: All the drama revolves around a little town and the reactions to the murder of a young boy, but all is so real and deep and cruel and sad that I've never been more moved by any show. I thought there could be nothing more gut-wrenching than the finale of season one... and then came episode six of season two.

Please don't watch Gracepoint, it's a disgrace in comparison!

I loved this show, I loved and admired it: the narrative outline with the time jumps, the dialogue, the superbe acting, the cinematography (oh my GOD, the end of episode four just is one of my favourite scenes of all time!!), the depths of human cruelty that were shown... and then came the ending, of season one that is. Completely ruined the atmosphere that had been set during the preceding episodes.

I will watch season two, even though I'm a little skeptical about the cast. But because of the ending of season one, I have to choose Fargo as the greatest TV show of 2014.

This is probably my favourite TV series of all time and there is none that I watched as many times as this one. As you can read in the other reviews, season 4 over all and particularly the ending just don't reach the same incredicle quality of the rest, but it is still very impressive.

There aren't many series that deal as fearlessly with contemporary issues like terrorism and torture, freedom of expression, military dictatorship, faith or social injustice as BSG has done it. And more often than not, the protagonists don't hold the moral highground which has forced me to view these issues in a different light. Victim of these shifting moral stances is Felix Gaeta who always does the "right" thing and ends up on the wrong end of history.

The cast is generally excellent, with just a few notable exceptions: Every time I watch the series, Jamie Bamber's mannerisms become just a little more annoying. But especially Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos are terrifyingly good and over time I get to appreciate the acerbic but loyal Colonel Tigh (played by Michael Hogan) even more.

And I have to add, that I don't know any series, that has so many interesting, well written, complex, powerful female characters. If you think about it, the actions and roles of the men (except for Gaius Baltar) really shrink in comparison and are much more traditional and predictable than the character arcs of, for example, Laura Roslin, Starbuck, Caprica Six, Athena or just Admiral Cain. Interestingly enough, while many other issues are addressed in the series, gender equality or feminism never play any part whatsoever. The series just shows us a world where sexism doesn't exist.

(I'm from Germany, so please excuse me if my English sounds a little odd.)

I had been looking forward to this. I love the Kings and the cast, I was expecting a very smart, unconventional show about religion and faith. But there is nothing smart about this. Their discussions about their beliefs stay completely flat and predictable. Michael Emerson feels like a cut-out-villain that is always introduced with a subtlety bordering on 'dun-dun-duuun'. And I'm all for a little sexual tension between the lead characters, but please establish it first before you talk it to death in the first episode! Maybe they fix the uneven direction and writing, but I just don't have any patience to wait for that.