I watched all ten episodes. The series began interestingly enough but by the end I found myself hoping that Jim/Jack's daughter did kill him and put him and this awful series out of it's misery. There are so many bad parts to this series it's hard to know where to start. First of all, there are many fine actors in this show and they must have needed a paycheck badly otherwise I can't imagine them signing on for this schlock. Tim Roth's character starts out believable enough but quickly deteriorates into a violent, alcohol swilling bully. Where in real life would someone like this be allowed to continue as police chief? And what did he do to earn the undying devotion of his chief deputy? She turns against him only when he shoots her boyfriend.And the wife. What can be said about her other than she must have a serious mental disorder to switch from loving mom and wife to someone who stands by and watches her husband brutalize others. She kicks him out of the house. No, he's back. She says don't hurt (fill in the blank with any number of people) and then offers him whiskey to bring out his bad side so he will. I could go on and on about every single character in this show. What a waste of talent. Stilted and superficial dialog. Lots of blank stares that I suppose were supposed to be meaningful. What a waste of what could have been a compelling and interesting story. If you are thinking of watching, don't. If you've started watching, save yourself several hours and stop.

Stuck with it for 4 episodes. Roth is fine, obviously. The writing and story telling (direction) ruins it. The worst imaginable crime is committed in the first episode and..... nobody seems to be all that bothered. The perpetrators are shown to be slapstick comedy villans; utterly ridiculous and out of place. Roth, and daughter drink gallons of booze and are miraculously non intoxicated. Police chiefs offer zero protection to police family who suffered murderous loss and other child goes missing. Oil co evil protaganist again is comedy zany villain right out of Addams family. Enough is enough. Given up. Now for Billions instead.

After 2-3 episodes, I'd have rated this maybe 7.5 stars, but after slogging through the whole series, I think 5 is pushing it.Very frustrating to sit through the very long pauses used as filler. This probably could have been an OK 5-episode show if they trimmed out the useless pauses and irrelevant scenes. This guy is supposed to be on the wagon, yet way too much time is spent on each episode showing whiskey glasses being poured and filled as he uses every possible excuse to booze it up (and encouraged by his wife, if you can believe that). I spent a lot of time on the last episodes with my hand on the remote, and eventually fast forwarded through much of the useless and pointless nonsense in the later episodes.The entire ninth episode is a long, boring look back at history supposed explaining why he's what he is, something that could have easily been done with a 5-10 minute "flashback", but instead wasting an hour of your time if you can manage to sit through it.The story itself is pretty flawed and simplistic, but I could have tolerated this if the production itself was good. Lovely scenery, but geez, get on with the story and quit showing us 30 second scenes of someone sitting there supposedly contemplating something deep or guzzling down each of several glasses of whiskey in real time...we got it in the first few seconds, no need to drag it out

Tin Star was worth for the magnificent scenery. What spoiled it was the script. The first episode was entertaining. From then on, what kept me watching were the inconsistencies in the plot and my need for self-flagellation. The main characters become unbearable as reason and sound judgment gradually loosen up. Inconsistencies abound. A town tolerates an inept police chief that doubles as the village drunk and mostly doesn't respond to calls. The family threatened by powerful forces and with a member already murdered, he leaves his wife and child unprotected in a cabin in the woods, away from town. You have the wife who is supposed to be the lucid one in the family but allows the teenage daughter to roam around at odd hours and places. Quentin Tarentino has been able to extract great acting from Tim Roth, but the highlight of his performance in Tin Star is the number of shots he downs. If you don't have anything better to do with your life for ten hours, leave your brain on the coffee table and watch this absurdity.