To be fair, I only stuck it out for 1.5 episodes, but this show is grim and bleak with no redeeming features. If you enjoy feeling miserable and bad take this show for a ride. Guaranteed to make you feel blue.

Sometimes "over the top" works (Fargo) but the drippy but pretentious protagonist simply bores and annoys. As well, the cliched backdrop of a big mining company doing bad things in a small town hardly adds to interest levels.

I think I'd have been so much happier if I'd stopped at episode 5 or so: I would have had no plot resolution, but I'd have not been there long enough to see the show get so dreadful. After Jack goes off the rails the story follows his lead and just gets sloppier and sloppier, until by the end we're left with situations and dialog that are uncomfortably, even comically, implausible. It's got more subplots than in an overfilled graveyard. And why take your protagonist and make him a horribly unlikeable person so late in the game that there's no room for a redemption arc? Ultimately his story isn't interesting enough to justify the number of people trying to kill him and at the end I don't care if Jack lived or died. I *love* Tim Roth, but except for a few brilliant flashes he's got nothing to do. (And while we're at it, the show has an aggressively unpleasant soundtrack that obscures any dialog it plays over, especially given Roth's south-London accent.)

A really great & exiting story, but a little bit brutal