So far

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I really liked it, with some reservations.

The humour does drop off a bit as the show goes on. I found episodes 1 and 2 wittier and more banter-filled than 3 and 4, but as tension ratchets up, that makes sense. I loved a lot of the characters and could watch Dillon and Grief all day. I thought the ideas being rolled around in the show were interesting and often uncomfortable - about how circumstance reveals monsters we thought we didn't contain.

My biggest gripe against the show is in episode one with the circumstances around Harry and Janice. She won't take five minutes to talk about the problem which would have prevented everything, and Harry goes into hysterical overreaction right away. It was very contrived, and I thought it could have been coordinated better to build more. It didn't feel like a real interaction, it felt like the kind of "dummy plot" where one calm word and the whole thing falls apart, and I don't like that kind of writing. There's also a moment of pure coincidence in episode 4 that prevents one character from affecting the outcome of the show, and in such a way that it felt cheap.

The mysteries and twists are well-handled, though, and the plot keeps chugging along. I genuinely had no idea where it was going in a good way. The pacing and structure are great, and for the most part the characters are presented as realistic, likeable, and interesting. All performances are good or better, too, which is nice. And again, can't get enough of Dillon and Grief.

My only other big complaint is at the end. There is too little revealed about Grief's past and his own motivations and actions in his crime. They talked about it so much throughout the show, always dodging it, always teasing, and to use it as an obvious "sequel hook" for season two (or more?) was, I thought, a little cheap, and amounted to not firing Chekov's gun. There must have been a way to reveal some of Grief's history without revealing all of it, surely, to give us at least a smidgeon of pay off to an extremely central plot.

Still, a couple of cheap TV tactics aside, I liked the show a lot, and as little as I'd want to bite the bait, I would watch season 2.