charles-53188 I've seen the entire Deadwood series a dozen times, and considered my self a passionate fan of David Milch. Finally got round to watching this train wreck and was lost after three episodes. I only finished it to savour my incredulity via some masochistic urge to wonder why the writer of Deadwood could serve up this volcanic pile of crap, cancelled righteously, and now stone cold. Never been so disappointed as I was with this. I am more than a little interested in mystical stories which offer enlightening insight, yet I found this series exceptionally opaque, lending damage to any concept of spiritual virtue through reasoned obfuscation. As a fan of Deadwood, The actors from that ensemble appearing like pale ghosts in contemporary universe centred on a wasteland without redemption. Speech patterns and quirks of character from Deadwood are thick and abound to the point of alarming rehash, but it's not just sad, it's agonising... Where the misfits in deadwood were bound by a town in the wilderness, there in no reason for this weird and unsympathetic ensemble to hang in each other's orbit. Good bye & good riddance.

hemiram What a mess this thing was. Reminds me of Green Acres in an odd way, except nobody is really having a good time, and it wasn't funny. Ed O'Neil was the onlygood character on it, and he was basically doing Al Bundy with birds.Milch himself seems to be embarrassed by it in some interviews I've seen, and rightly so. I always wonder how does a train wreck of a series like this get the green light to go on in the first place? And comparing this mess to a great show like Deadwood is just hilarious. Is this REALLY the best that HBO could come up with? I doubt it, they just wanted to go weird for weird's sake. Weird is sometimes good, but usually, it's BAD, and this show was VERY VERY BAD.

thebug50 After watching the first few episodes of this show, I was stoked...was the most excited I'd been about a show in years. Interesting characters...intriguingly vague plot developments that seemed to elude to something huge...but then a switch flipped. Coherence became taboo. Look...I understand that some people like a challenge...a big challenge even. Checkers isn't you're game. You prefer chess. This is the equivalent of playing chess blindfolded with pieces missing...and you get a smack across the face every time you make a move. Frustrating and pointless. Thank God the show ended...as I would have inevitably continued watching in an attempt to find that initial excitement again. To the self proclaimed intellectuals that got off on this thankfully brief failure of a series...fear not. Go to your local museum or art gallery...find a nice lil abstract painting...and find the plot in that. FYI...the blue splotch represents your struggle to prove that less is more.

Cary Sato Lee Awesome show..One really needs to understand the language that is being spoken near the water to catch the subtleties of the writing. A lot if hidden agendas and just enough quirkiness to grab your attention. Just wish it was picked up for more episodes. A fresh look at what is available in the market..if one is willing to write about it. The actors are well cast for their individual roles and are played out to the tee. Just wish there were more character development at the beginning of the show on some of the players so the audience doesn't have to play catchup from one episode to another. Overall this show just needs better promotion in order to get a solid following like they did with Deadwood.