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Well, after such a fast paced episode, we had high hopes for the follow up.. not quite some character development but the way the neighbor was introduced and how fast she just asks him out... and he says yes.. i agree with another reviewer... dude would never get out to a public place like that.. and the old FBI dude getting his pic like that at the end... well..

it could have been better planned like him getting out of hiding to save someone or something.. not just start dating and be uncareful like that.. oh well, i hope it picks out in the next episode because this one was a bit boring....

First episode started off brilliantly. We had action, suspense and mystery. It was well thought out and I was constantly kept engaged.

Things took a turn in the second episode. It did not have any basis in reality for a former CIA agent on the run from the government.

Most of this episode is dedicated to Dan renting the garage of divorced woman Zoe, who appeared throughout this episode to try and force some sort of relationship with Dan. Dan ends up staying and acting like some sort of surrogate husband/father to her.

Zoe and her backstory is completely unnecessary here. This is where American spy "thrillers" fall down. They input unnecessary characters and information into the show which takes away from the original plot.

I am more interested in Dan and Harold's backstory and what went down 30 years previous and what Dan has to do in the present to bring it to a conclusion, than look at 40 odd minutes of him entertaining and indulging a stranger, who could be anyone considering he was so paranoid about everyone in the first episode.

I love John Lithgow and Ali's Shawkat, so I will keep watching it to see what the outcome is, but quality wise? It's let down by running off the tracks with filler.

There is just not enough story here right now. Too slow-moving and the dialogue and pacing is not connecting with me right now. It is like Homeland at .04x speed or something.

So where were they going with this series?, the guy lays low moving on a bit now and then and they don't find him or they do.

AS if Jeff Bridges is going to get involved with some neurotic woman who just happens to invite him out to dinner somewhere. Whereupon they happen to get stopped by the Police. With body cam footage getting passed on to Lithgow.

Like why would Lithgow ONLY look through video cam footage stills of folks stopped by the roadside by the Police, the VAST amount of such material sent off to the FBI to start with!, all throughout the US, just not very likely is it. The odds & probability. Just not kept REAL is it.

There would be subway video footage, airport footage, Mexico & Canada boarder footage, toll road footage, loads of video footage in the streets & public buildings 'not' just Police roadside footage that JUST HAPPENED to take place due to an evening meal that Jeff Bridges could easily have got out of.

He could have showed her his severely bruised back and even pointed out he'd have to leave both his dogs UNATTENDED.

NO WAY would he have exposed himself to detection by going out like that. Of cause what a stale boring series it would be if he just took to ground not even cooking a meal for someone. Which anyway he'd have made minimum contact with her at that homestead.

So all in all, it'll be a long drawn out series, with yes two big name actors, but already the series is a busted flush. Top tip is to just watch episode one and IMAGINE what the rest of it all would be. It'll be a far better viewing or rather non viewing experience.

Sometimes with an after meal desert just having part of the bowl of whatever it is is far better than consuming the whole portion. The later spoonfuls never giving anywhere near the same satisfaction that was initially obtained. Hard to do but can be better.

We see from this episode where this is going, NOWHERE really. Just pack it in. Decent enough effort though that should have been a taunt 2 hour long Movie thriller not a TV series. It would not have had great box office figures with two old farts like that but it'd been a better format for it. Some Movies being better were it a multi episode series and in this case a TV series that'd been best as a Movie. But then a sub $100m box office viewership if that, might have struggle to even do $50 million, for sure put the producers off of that idea.

Get it all over and done with in effectively the time span of 2 episodes in a movie format, not drag it out with at least 7 episodes and it becoming a drag. Negating whatever was initially seen in it. Which was mainly a HOPE of actually having on our hands a decent thing to watch on the TV in and amongst the 98% of UTTER GARBAGE produced these days.