jmhamilton

I have very mixed feelings about this series. Human experiments designed to manipulate voters into supporting legislation that forces the abortion of babies who test positive in utero for a "psychopath gene" doesn't bode well as enjoyable subject matter, but the moral issues were skirted over, anyway. The acting was solid and the story fairly suspenseful but it bogged down mid-way through with unnecessary complications and confusions. There were so many "coincidental" associations between characters that I was groaning in anticipation about what absurd twist was coming up next. It became impossible to make the huge leaps of faith that the screenwriter demanded. When that happens in a drama/film, I become irritated and wonder if the writer thinks the viewers are really that stupid. The series would have been far better had the plot and subplots been more believable. And it could have been made far more believable by simplifying the story and cutting out what were intended to be clever twists and associations but ended up being absurdities and distractions. With this in mind, it's worth watching.