Disagree about the acting, but perhaps it's the writing. Elliot is totally unconvincing to me.
Klaus wrote:
Genuinely can't stand it either. You could probably plot influences from not just Fincher/Palahniuk but all the worst guy culture films of the last 40 years. It represents everything I hate about stylistic, over-produced tv shows. Whoever created it is a massive prat.
Yes, that's about it. The first season is a ten episode bagatelle with less to it than a typical high concept short story. After sleepwalking through the second half of season one while doing this move to Darwin, I actually turned it off in disgust during the final episode. The characters are ciphers, the things it wants to explore are adolescent, and it's breathtaking in its lack of grace and substance. There's nothing to it.
