I don't quite understand the 8+ overall rating for this show. It was OK, I enjoyed it enough to watch it right through, but it was pretty average in most respects.
The 'man seeks revenge for death of wife/child/family' has been done to death, and this didn't really bring much new to the genre. Pratt's unreliability due to a brain tumour was a nice twist, but we've seen that in other series and movies before (usually amnesia caused by head trauma).
I love Chris Pratt, and he was pretty decent in the role, and while the nature of the role meant he had to be suitably dour throughout, it did become a bit depressing after a while. I also found the early episodes quite slow in parts.
Characters like Jai Courtney's baddie Steve Horn were so cookie-cutter. You could tell just by the haircut that he was a baddie the first time you saw him, and he played to all the tropes.
And the episode where Chris is on the run in the bush, while actually quite exciting at times, was pretty unbelievable. Maybe my grasp of technology isn't so good, but I doubt the thermal imaging camera tracking him would confuse a couple of tiny batteries for a human (do batteries even give off heat when not in use??).
This was certainly watchable, but I was expecting much better.
The 'man seeks revenge for death of wife/child/family' has been done to death, and this didn't really bring much new to the genre. Pratt's unreliability due to a brain tumour was a nice twist, but we've seen that in other series and movies before (usually amnesia caused by head trauma).
I love Chris Pratt, and he was pretty decent in the role, and while the nature of the role meant he had to be suitably dour throughout, it did become a bit depressing after a while. I also found the early episodes quite slow in parts.
Characters like Jai Courtney's baddie Steve Horn were so cookie-cutter. You could tell just by the haircut that he was a baddie the first time you saw him, and he played to all the tropes.
And the episode where Chris is on the run in the bush, while actually quite exciting at times, was pretty unbelievable. Maybe my grasp of technology isn't so good, but I doubt the thermal imaging camera tracking him would confuse a couple of tiny batteries for a human (do batteries even give off heat when not in use??).
This was certainly watchable, but I was expecting much better.