Binge watched over two days. Overall, I think I wasted 5-6 hours of my life. American shows really need to learn a few things from the UK, this would have been great 6-7 episode show but the need to stretch it to 13 ruined the passing and my enjoyment of the show. Not to mention that the writing throughout is quite terrible, almost every conversation with Luke was full of cliches, and the fact that they jock about it ("You're so corny") makes it almost worse.
It's pretty crazy to think that in 13 hours, we never actually learn how Luke was framed, and the potentially very interesting relationship between Luke, Diamondback (D.) and
is not explored enough. All we get is a few shitty flashbacks and some dialogue during the big fight.
Not to mention that the last fight was just so woeful. It probably doesn't help that D. looks like a '70s sitcom villain. While it (might) be faithful to the comic books, D.'s outfil just looks so out of place (and cheap) to render the scene unintentionally hilarious. Erik LaRay Harvey is a very good actor, so why would you put him a suit that covers his face !
Apart from large swaths of the show making no sense ( the police are beating up black people, so we need to give the police better weapons ... ), it truly feels like a wasted opportunity. I will not be watching a second season.
