This spin-off's first outing was a big step down from The Missing, and this second season is a disaster. You can't create suspense or surprising twists when nothing and no one is remotely believable. The acting is as stilted as the terrible dialogue. Fiona Shaw is especially bad, but then, she is given one ludicrous scene after another. You never for a second believe this nincompoop is an ambassador on the world stage, or even a mother, for that matter, For all the striving after a timely message, the story, such as it is, relies on dull cliches and actually downplays the threat of fascism in Orban's Hungary. (I suppose the producers needed permits to film in Budapest; did Orban's ministers have script-approval?) A real waster of six hours.
Review of Baptiste
