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Eventually I'll see the whole thing but I've turned it off four times already before it's halfway through because they won't stop sounding stupid when they talk and turning it up to 11 means they think they have to talk more while stunt people dance and twitch around waiting to be killed/maimed in 'look what we can do' set-ups that turn the wick/high table world of mystery into a ridiculously lethal episode of "Wipeout" and curiously leading at least to a better class of tedium.... 'They' did the same thing with the road warrior franchise by turning Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome up to an over-the-top 11.

The last sentence added to meet the 600 character requirement which is imdb's way of telling me they don't need my input anymore.

The right ingredients, wrong recipe... I was trying so hard to enjoy it (ep.3) when an incredibly stupid plot advancing dialog exchange caused me to blurt out an obscenity and write this.

Remember "McMillan & Wife"? And the era of easy-as-pie-TV-crime capers? I halfway expect a cameo by Dick Van Dyke or Hal Linden... That's the level of stupid stupid TV-cliché plotting and writing that brings it down.

It's a testament to the skill and professionalism of the actors that you can hardly tell they know they're not selling Shinola...

Edit: halfway through episode 5: my god this is stupid...too stupid to even FF to the fights.

Dropped 2 stars I'm gonna wait until someone puts together a fight highlight reel.

Season 2 is a threat.

An 80's drive-in flick...done with more skill than 'the way they used to make them', which is to say, still stupid but better made, looking and entertaining.

The script has surprises and humor; the atmospheric build up, with all the formula tropes, is controlled; the dialog serves the exposition; the acting is good; the lights are on and the camera is steady...it does what it came to do.

Alexis Louder made a mark.

And yes, "Boss Level" is enormously good (more) fun.