I figured "What the heck!" and gave the first episode a try, right about bed time. Figured I'd watch a little each night over a week or so... Only a few of you will know what it means when I say I signed on for a '3 hour tour'.
The overall format of the show was great! I liked seeing the Plan ->Crime ->Pursuit ->Resolution flow of the story, and, besides the computer screen gaffe mentioned below, the tech details seemed spot on. The cast is superb. These aren't the prim 'Hugh Grant' Englishmen we Yanks often are fed.
The producers/writers/? seem to have been trying to push the techno-triumph of the surveillance state, but the fancy gear only worked in the end because some of the gang had lapses in OpSec. The smartest guy in the bunch, 'Basil', communicates openly with Terry over a chat channel or e-mail (the screen was somewhat ambiguous...behavior was chat-ish, but the buttons looked like an e-mail client).
Bottom line: Well worth the watch.
The overall format of the show was great! I liked seeing the Plan ->Crime ->Pursuit ->Resolution flow of the story, and, besides the computer screen gaffe mentioned below, the tech details seemed spot on. The cast is superb. These aren't the prim 'Hugh Grant' Englishmen we Yanks often are fed.
The producers/writers/? seem to have been trying to push the techno-triumph of the surveillance state, but the fancy gear only worked in the end because some of the gang had lapses in OpSec. The smartest guy in the bunch, 'Basil', communicates openly with Terry over a chat channel or e-mail (the screen was somewhat ambiguous...behavior was chat-ish, but the buttons looked like an e-mail client).
Bottom line: Well worth the watch.