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Citadel: The Human Enigma (2023)
It's the little things ...
Two episodes in and it is much as expected: a slightly corny, super violent, plot-light spy series. Not my favourite genre but the kind of thing I will watch if I have time on my hands.
On that basis it is OK to good but I find a lot of little things annoying, starting with the shots that start upside-down and slowly rotate to normal orientation (why?), storing all their secrets (without a backup) on a site belonging to another spy organisation, the lab "on the top floor" that clearly isn't, leaving main thug alive with injuries so light that he was soon driving away without apparent difficulty.
Given the quality of key actors involved it may recover, but I am not hopeful.
How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
Good but ...
Half way through series 3.
... a cleverly plotted programme but I am fed up with the frequent time shifts within episodes. Four weeks earlier, two weeks later, one week earlier, ten years earlier. That's one episode, FFS.
I can forgive a jump back 10 years, but if you cannot tell a story in current time it feels like it isn't so good.
Luther: Episode #3.1 (2013)
Exceptional promotion
At the end of S2 Erin Grey was a Detective Sergeant with a rightful concern about Detective Chief Inspector John Luther.
At the start of S3 she has suddenly risen two ranks to DCI in charge in an investigation against him. Tortuous?