4/10
Almost unwatchable
23 June 2014
Takes shaky cam to a whole new level. It induces motion sickness. The average shot is one second or less. Combined with extreme closeups, bizarre color schemes (blue on blue on blue) or sepia or pastel washout for no reason it's nearly un-view-able. The upside is that this gives the writers an opportunity to slack off and dash together a script that's as scattered and incoherent as the visuals. You rarely have a scene that's connected with any other scene and the notion of a plot is pretty much tossed out. But so what?

It's a BBC production so the basic premise is that the US is a giant sewer of ultra right wing psychopathic anti Muslim bigots and the only the sane people in the world are of course, the Brits and their gently nuanced love of all Muslims. If it turns out the Brits really are behind it, well then it's for our own good. Oh and throw in Florida's death row conviction of a Brit who's, you guessed it, completely innocent.

I wonder if they pull an MI-5 and just blame everything on The Jews.
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