I enjoyed the first half of this eight-episode season, though I had to put my moral scruples on hold to root for such terrible people. (And they are *all* terrible people.) Whatever its ethical implications, I liked the show enough that I recommended it to friends.
Then came the second half of the season, when things went downhill. The storyline got more far-fetched, the principal characters became even harder to forgive, the pop-culture references were cloying, and there were way, way too many fantasy sequences, all involving either sex or murder, or, for variety, sex and murder.
A lot of this felt like padding; episode 5, in particular, was overly drawn out, with slow-motion partying, the inevitable pointless fantasy scene, and interminable drunk dialogue that went nowhere.
By the end I was tired of the whole concept and hanging on just to see how the story would be resolved. Guess what - it's not! The last episode just ends, leaving everything up in the air.
So, for me ... watchable enough in general, good in the beginning, very inconsistent later, disappointing at the end. All the show's problems relate to the writing; the production values, acting, etc are uniformly fine, with Bateman a standout as the killer.
Then came the second half of the season, when things went downhill. The storyline got more far-fetched, the principal characters became even harder to forgive, the pop-culture references were cloying, and there were way, way too many fantasy sequences, all involving either sex or murder, or, for variety, sex and murder.
A lot of this felt like padding; episode 5, in particular, was overly drawn out, with slow-motion partying, the inevitable pointless fantasy scene, and interminable drunk dialogue that went nowhere.
By the end I was tired of the whole concept and hanging on just to see how the story would be resolved. Guess what - it's not! The last episode just ends, leaving everything up in the air.
So, for me ... watchable enough in general, good in the beginning, very inconsistent later, disappointing at the end. All the show's problems relate to the writing; the production values, acting, etc are uniformly fine, with Bateman a standout as the killer.