The first half of season 1 was looking pretty good. Then the writers ran out of ideas and showed their true colors. Plot spoiler alert! The military are demons, the "occupy" anarchists are heroes and the bad guys are actually the good guys. Oh and the "best" part...the NYT reporters are honest journalists. HA!Typical liberal garbage. What a pile of crap.

I forget whether a "wise" person once said to believe or disbelieve 2 implausible things before lunch, but the strain on one's credibility in this series does become too heavy a weight.The initial "shock" of believing a US corporation made a deal with terrorists is hardly a shock; that hardly puts any tax on one's credibility. That a paramilitary company is used for "off-book" activities is likewise no harder to swallow than milk to a child. A general's collusion is more difficult, and far too many "evildoers" acting with impunity and no fear of consequences is a bit of a stretch, however.Aside from Ms. Friel, who is more than equal to her role, the rest of the cast occasionally finds it hard to sell the dialogue the writers gave them (unless the editing is simply worse than it seemed - hardly award-winning by itself). They did a lot of things right, however. The essence of the plot was good, flipping through various languages for a series that stretches through 3 continents was something we need to see done an awful lot more, and they kept the pacing nicely even, and the narrative of the three separate stories lucid (for the most part). Worth watching if your expectations aren't too high.

First of all it's chick TV. Make no mistake this is a chick show. The only characters with above room temperature IQ are the women. Men are either idiots or cartoon evil. Even 12 year girls have more on the ball than army officers, US attorneys, hackers, hit men, anarchists and the like. Fair enough. But then we add in the global super conspiracy redolent of "The Following" and the implausible coincidences involving the main character and bizarre way one character is witness to murder and assaults in public in broad daylight in busy city streets that no one else pays attention to let alone call the cops and it goes down pretty fast. They really could have easily done this in 4 eps. By stretching it out slow burn style it's just dull, incomprehensible and cliché.

This is typical conspiracy theory fayre and this time is centred around a multi-national corporation. So it's part of a common theme that abounds in TV and cinema and has the usual twists and turns that are to be expected. Has it got anything that separates it from the rest? Not really but the cast are very good with a storyline that, as many reviewers have mentioned, often beggars belief. The level of stupidity is quite astounding especially considering that the characters are supposed to be smart and worldly-wise. People who are supposed to be suspicious of anyone they don't know believe strangers even after they are discovered to be liars. Friends who prove to be untrustworthy are given secret information over, and over, and over, .. again.Even after all this it's still a decent, if not outstanding, series which I have continued to watch largely because of the cast as opposed to the script. It's hard to ignore the stupidity but the cast do a very good job of putting across an unbelievable story. Sometimes a great cast can raise a mediocre script into something that's worth watching.