I would call this quite entertaining television popcorn fair. You really need to turn your brain off and I have serious questions about how long they can maintain this scenario, but for the time being it is a good way to waste an hour.The story involves Edward, raised an orphan, who joined the army, served in the special forces and eventually joined a SUPER SECRET organization who works behind the scenes to save the world on a regular basis. This organization recruits people who are willing to have an alternate personality created for them (in Edward's case this is Henry) and live two lives - one 'normal Joe' type life and one superspy, each unaware of the other's existence. Whew! It's complicated just to write a quick synopsis! It's pretty entertaining, but suspension of disbelief is a requirement. I couldn't stop wondering why, when one agent displayed mental imbalance, they merely erased her spy identity and let her live her normal life, yet when they suspected the same of Edward they were going to kill him. Wouldn't they just have a universal policy? And then there's this whole conspiracy of folks around him who are helping to hide his condition. Why? It only endangers those around him. His civilian personality frequently pops up when he's supposed to be shooting down an airplane or torturing a suspect. The biggest question for me is what is the possible advantage of splitting a spy's personality in the first place? This is brought to a head in an episode concerning Edward's partner Raymond (or Tom, in civilian life). Someone from Ray's past recognizes 'Tom', and of course, he has no idea what's going on. This actually does lead to one of the more amusing episodes however, with Tom's wife witnessing Ray committing murder. I'm not sure how long I can keep my thoughts turned to 'off'.Overall, this may be one of those shows that ultimately would have worked better as a mini series; I may be just one "we can torture because we're the good guys" speech away from giving this the boot.

My Own Worst Enemy is probably the best new show this year, and it looks pretty promising. It has the right amount of action, drama, and humor in it,and the script is somewhat original compared to the usual we-are-cops-and-we-fight-crime shows.Yes there have been lots of fictions about secret agents before, but here, it deals with split personalities, the reaction of a normal person turned into a professional killer, and the way an antisocial and ruthless agent can manage his everyday family life. The actors are also all very convincing, especially Christian Slater, who, in my opinion, deserves an award for his performance as Henry/Edward. That said, I really don't understand why this show should be canceled by the network. I think it just needs time to find its public.

Well as of now people know the show has been canceled. The how and why can be discussed all day but for me I loved the show. It proved that Slater is an underrated actor. He's done a couple of bad stinkers like "Alone in The Dark" but he has redeemed himself.This show was fun every week. Yeah a lot of was predictable but it's still done in such an entertaining way that I never missed an episode.The acting by Slater as he slips into Edward then Henry was great and convincing. The secondary characters from his wife to his buddy or the psychologist are all well developed. Everyone harbors a secret in this show which made it interesting. You don't know whose playing who.Likewise, Edward/Henry has an actual family to begin with so you do get all the dynamics and drama that comes with living two identities.Stuff like the experiment or chip in Edward malfunction make the show less predictable as you don't quite know when one personality will take over. There's also a lot of humor with the rivalry that Edward and Henry against one another. They both hate each but also need one another.It's hilarious to see then where their personality takes them in every episode. Again I will say that Christian Slater provides great acting here. You can tell when an actor is really into his role and that makes all the difference in the world. I will mention the rest of the cast which is great. There is Alfre Woodward who plays Edward's boss, Mavis Heller. She is also great and let's Henry/Edward know that he can be eliminated at any time. Bella Thorne as Henry's wife, Ruthy Spivey, is a capable actress. Omid Atayi as Tony (the technology dude keeping track of the experiment) is also good. Saffron Burrows as Henry's psychologist is great (not too mention beautiful). It's too bad that this died too soon.

I wanted to like it, but I cannot take any more of Henry. He refuses to act like he has a brain. Were are lead to understand that he has a job that requires some smarts? In spite of that, when the Doc gets killed, what does he do next? He goes to talk about it to a shrink. No concern if she is part of the crew or if he is setting her up to die.If he finds himself in a strange spot, he make faces so everyone can see he is not acting appropriately. He does not even recover quickly, he goes on and on with these incredulous looks, where Edward would not.I would like to see a show with just Edward, not that looks like fun.