Wot I am watching now

[Brentbaggie]

Any drama that needs a principal character to spend five minutes of the final episode explaining who was who and what half the plot was about is trash.

Exposition should always principally occur through action or discovery - otherwise what's the point? If you have to be told verbally by a character in a monologue, even with a litany of flashbacks, it is a failure on behalf of the writer (and/or Producer) to develop a satisfactory story arc. Be told.

(p.s. I enjoyed a fair bit of it in an escapist way, but then to suddenly have Tracy Ullman revealed in the final episode as the criminal mastermind now capable of clandestinely influencing half the free world without our ever having seen her before (save for a 10 second silhouette) is frankly shite. And then to have this brilliant impenetrable malefactor matriarch, her son and chief heavy killed in the space of a few minutes by our heroes tells me the word "mastermind" might have been somewhat wide of the mark.)

Thank you ...ruined my Christmas Day tv binge fest!

+ another

I’ve merely saved you all from a long and disappointing Xmas binge that would have annoyed you. 

Point taken mind.