User reviews

This show started out great and got worse and worse. The fact that Naz goes from a nobody to a shaved head, tatted, buff badass is a joke. Just goes to show whatever moron wrote this has never seen one episode of Lock Up. Get a clue. Took 10 episodes for nothing to happen, this disaster could have been wrapped up in 5 episodes and been a lot better. Why they had Naz's attorney ruin her whole career for him I dont understand. She stuffed heroin up her crotch cause she thought he was cute? Lmao what a joke. Why is this rated so highly? 3/10 and it really deserves a 2/10 i gave it an extra star for the cat.

I really dont understand the high ratings. The show is well played but the beginning is total unrealistic and the show itself moves too slow.

So we are introduced with this bright young man, he is obviously an intelligent individual, he studies math and also serves as a math tutor for his university's Basketball team. Later that evening the guy takes his dad's taxi to go to a party, fine seems reasonable enough, young people do this things, but this is where the show goes full retardation. A girl walks into his cab, and he's like " I'm off duty", but the girl is like "take me places" so he's like "OK I will". Then the girl is like " take these drugs" and the dude is like, "no I don't do drugs" but the girl is like "common I'm hot, do these drugs with me" and he is like "OK". Then the girl takes out a knife and says "stab yourself with this knife" and guy is like "no way!" and the girl is like "do it!" and the guy does it. Then the girl goes "now stab me" and he's like "no" and she says "please" and he says "OK just once" and he stabs here. This is where I stopped watching, couldn't keep watching, it's like the main character doesn't have a will of his own, he just goes along with things, so why did the show try so hard to establish him as an intelligent person at the beginning?

nothing new under the sun.

The sane old story of the goody good boy from humble working class family and the underdog lower. have we not seen it before in hundred films and TV shows?

Slow going story that feels much like a literal copy. The only new idea is the leg eczema which I find extra repulsing ?

The cast is great though Turturro is way beneath his great talent.

Slow, boring too standard and a waste of time. I expect so much better from an HBO series.

I sincerely advice anyone who hasn't seen the original to see it.

Let me just post what others have said as I barely made it through episode 1 with out changing my mind to watch clouds pass by instead.

Louis

I turned this ridiculous show off after 5 minutes. It has about as much to do with NYC characters as the man in the moon. Take me to the beach? Give me a break. Richard Price was once capable of writing gritty naturalistic tales. Now he writes a cock-and-bull story that has mesmerized the critics. The emperor has no clothes.

Ed

Louis, you know how I feel about not giving films/shows a chance before railing against them. That said, I've already seen the first two episodes of the miniseries and I can't say that I disagree. But if something feels "off" about its portrait of not just NYC characters, but NYC life in general, it's because there's a sense that the story, so blatantly capitalizing on this true-crime fad that's sweeping pop culture, has been rigged from top to bottom to score very easy points against a roll-call of capital-I issues, mainly the corrupt legal system. I'm going to stay with it to the end, and hope it redeems itself. Digging Riz Ahmed's performance, though.

Jeff

After two episodes, I'm not inclined to keep going. Slow, clichéd, on-the-nose. The HBO brand means Oscar-caliber direction and cinematography. But the script from Richard Price is a plodding disappointment.

I would give the first two episodes an 8 for sure and it kept me going. But the last episode is an absolute disappointment! What a waste of time ....