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A Secret Service agent awakens in a Twin Peaks-vibe rural town where All Is Not What It Seems: people won't give him a straight answer, there's all sorts of strange and suspicious behaviour — you get the deal.
By the fifth ep, All Is Revealed, and our protagonist — for Very Good Reason — becomes that which he loathed and struggled mightily against at the beginning of the show. So far, so so, with intriguing themes of surveillance state, conformism, and the greater good underlying the action.
And then ham-fisted execution, sub-sub-sub-Hitchcockian left-hand-not-knowing-what-the-right-hand's-doing bullshit, stupid stupid stupid character u-turns, and — ah, fuck it.
Confidence was never high for this show.
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