The thing that I really don't understand is how only Charlie Croker, played by Jeff Daniels, is the only guy who got the weird, overly exaggerated, absolutely unnatural accent in this series. Is Charlie Croker is actually the only Atlanta outsider doing business in that city? Why all the characters around this guy speaking normal American English, even Bill Camp, an Atlanta local banker who hates his guts, without such weird accent? Not his ex wife, his current wife, not even his son, none of them seems to have no difficulty to communicate with him in a normal American English.
The second thing that I consider this series inferior is there almost not background histories of all the people around him. All these characters are like from the prequel series that we already knew them quite well. But it's not. When the first episode started, they are already in the middle of the storyline. There's no developments, the origins of all the relationships with Croker.
Then the whole series also showed a thin and weak centerline of the drama that needed to insert many unnecessary fillers such as 1) the mayor's re-election campaign, 2) Croker's attorney family life, his connection with that thug-like mayor, 3) Croker's secretary, Jill Hensley, her husband's bad luck with the violent white cop, his jail time, and his court trial scenes, 4) The weird and over-the-top side story of Herb Richman at the Croker's ranch. The rattle snakes scenes. 5) The unnecessary characters of Joyce Newman and even Croker's ex wife. There are more stuffing fillers in this thin drama, not just what I've pointed out here.
But the real killer of this series is the WEIRD ACCENT of Charlie Croker, so strange and out of place, a disastrous misfire, making Jeff Daniels a cartoon character and a very bad actor.
The second thing that I consider this series inferior is there almost not background histories of all the people around him. All these characters are like from the prequel series that we already knew them quite well. But it's not. When the first episode started, they are already in the middle of the storyline. There's no developments, the origins of all the relationships with Croker.
Then the whole series also showed a thin and weak centerline of the drama that needed to insert many unnecessary fillers such as 1) the mayor's re-election campaign, 2) Croker's attorney family life, his connection with that thug-like mayor, 3) Croker's secretary, Jill Hensley, her husband's bad luck with the violent white cop, his jail time, and his court trial scenes, 4) The weird and over-the-top side story of Herb Richman at the Croker's ranch. The rattle snakes scenes. 5) The unnecessary characters of Joyce Newman and even Croker's ex wife. There are more stuffing fillers in this thin drama, not just what I've pointed out here.
But the real killer of this series is the WEIRD ACCENT of Charlie Croker, so strange and out of place, a disastrous misfire, making Jeff Daniels a cartoon character and a very bad actor.