This has the potential to be a wonderful series. The storyline is great. The main actors wonderful and the characters believable. The secondary characters as odd as you would expect. The narration by everyone's favourite Icelandic actor is spot on.
It's just unfortunate that the episode is spoiled entirely by one lengthy scene where the Williams brothers have decided that they want to be Tarrantino and show lots of blood and gore and needlessly so. Yes, the mass shooting is necessary for the plot development. I can see that. We've established that the killers are ruthless psychopaths in doing so and that the Tailleur will resort to desperate measures to recover his property.
However, this still could have been accomplished by just having the killers scene to enter the station and perhaps for the camera to be then focussed entirely on the driver for 3 or 4 minutes doing, say, a Sudoku, all the while listening to non-stop gunfire in the background and being unaffected by it. We still would have got the message. The killers then come out and report on what happened and what they found.
Instead, the Williams decide to shoot up everybody they see with lots of special affects, a year's budget on blood bags and actors flying across the screen after being blasted at point blank range. One brief moment of querky dialogue which simply added nothing.
Memo to Williams: it is possible to convey violence in a plot without needlessly showing it.
All in all, the whole 5+ minutes of gore was entirely gratuitous and spoiled the entire episode for us.
We will continue to watch episode 2 but if the violence continues at this sort of unnecessary level, we will likely quickly give up which would be a shame as the plot has so much potential.
If it hadn't been for this one scene, I would have given it a 9. But because of the scene spoiling the entire experience, I only rate it a 6.