Hollywoodwhore99 This is show is about as good as television gets. Glenn Close proves that she is more than Norma Desmond or Alex Forrest. In this show nothing is safe people can't be trusted and human casualties only matter if you can put a dollar amount the loss of their life. What is great about the show you don't know what to expect. The FATAL FLAW is that there is too many characters. You need to watch every episode more than once to see "who hates who" and "Who killed who & why".This review however is only for the first 2 seasons. We binged watch this episodes in 8 days so everything was fresh in our minds but we still got a little lost about some details. So if you watch this pay very close attention. The plot gets confusing and you might have to watch every episode (In Season 2) twice just so you can keep up.

chrisprice-02515 Season 1 gripped me and each ending lured me into the next episode. My thirst for justice hooked me and being a sucker for a resolution meant I had to keep faith. The great camera work and competent acting earned my loyalty enough to see me through to season 2. Unfortunately I would have been happy to walk away at the end of season 1. I got a little closure and, even if my conclusions were wrong, I wasn't going to pine for more revelations.So season 2 had to convince me to stay and with episode after episode becoming bleaker and bleaker I was running out of reasons to watch. It wasn't just that no one had an ounce of moral fibre, or humanity looked so jaded, the evil just got boring and all the little devices got jarring. Another side plot would have added a dimension but all we got was more of the same, burying all my passion beneath a plot I had no desire to bear.But what really did it for me was that vindictive, calculating Ellen just wasn't believable and I got sick of hearing her swallow that scotch or whatever it was supposed to be. What is it with this type of programme and drinks? The gold standard is Breaking Bad but Damages is pretty run of the mill in comparison.I'm not hard to please and season 1 would get an easy 8 but I fear 6 would be generous if I'd felt the need to endure season 2 to the end. I'm a little sad because the production was great and the plot had potential.

screenidol From the beginning, Damages has been slick, beautifully photographed and wonderfully acted. Glenn Close, for one, is superb all the way through. Season one was tense, tricky, well-written and suspenseful. The repetition and flashbacks were a little difficult at first, but seemed to work; the approach felt very new. By the fifth season, the flashbacks seemed contrived and the endless repetition unnecessary. That, along with the many protracted scenes of long stares and needless dialog, made you feel as if a twenty-minute story was being inflated to 45 minutes. The writers/directors were toying with you all the time, as if that were the only purpose of the exercise. Behaviors were not just unexpected, they were unbelievable. The story line twisted around itself to the point of self-strangulation. I would have accepted a "happy" ending or one that ended in tragedy for at least one of the principles, but there was no ending, no resolution -- nothing that felt right. With this frustrating final season, I had to give a "fair-to-middling" rating to what started as a smart, good-looking series. Except for the inevitable cliffhangers, I expect it would have been best to stop after season 2 or 3.

Josef Aleksic Don't get me wrong, this is a great show. Of course Glen Close and the the other actors make it worth watching. There is a lot to learn about the (very sick) U.S. justice system. It is packed with action, suspense and great dialog. But: Every season the writers and producers want to top the one before. This amounts to an almost hilarious cascade of plot twists that at the end damage Damages. The show slowly but sure moves into the state that you do not believe it any more. You see something and you know, "uh, well, anything can still happen". I wouldn't be surprised if one day Patty would rip off a face mask and reveal herself as being, whatever, Santa Claus. That is definitely the (one and only) bad thing about Damages - otherwise go and watch it. And enjoy it!