I'm a big fan of the first series, lots of action and tension brought from the usual Gareth Edwards type of action, including excellent use of shaky cam where it doesn't get overdone and distracting like many other films. Unfortunately, what made the first season so great for me, doesn't show up this season and I just finished the finale. It's like the show runner wanted to focus more on the "gangs" rather than the action, but the writing is so boring. Scenes drag on and gets uninteresting. The characters took a turn for the worse. Elliot is put on the back burner this season, to focus on the less interesting new characters. Some batman villain in a tracksuit is the new face of the antagonists while the investors remain shadows. He's very eye-rollingly cringy and his actions really belong in Gotham, not the real world London. The writing for the main cast has gotten so lazy and boring, even Lale felt like a different person. The worst is how Sean acts, channeling is best Thomas Shelby impersonation, nothing like the guy struggling with his inner demons that made him so much more interesting last season. It really feels like an entirely different show, and I'm not coming back if they happen to renew it.
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Awful
robgasson-9013624 October 2022
You'd think they would have learnt from the first series, sadly no, they would have to mount the actors on a rocking horse to make them even more wooden, the dialogue is awful, plot borrowed from several better series. I watch bemused/horrified that they can spend so much money on a series (great locations) especially the homes, and yet still produce such a turgid and vapid crock of crap. I'm forced to write even more about this series in order for this review to be published, as such I will list the things I would rather do than watch it, have my chest waxed, eat my own ear wax, punch myself in the face every thirty seconds, drill my own teeth with out pain relief.
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