amanuensis-67801 The first episode or two I was really intrigued, but as it began to be revealed that every. single. character. (even the minor ones) had a "dark secret" and the series was going to show you every. single. one, it just got unbelievable. More than once, the way characters reacted to big reveals felt unrealistic and forced for plot reasons. And I never bought the reason the gate around the community had been constructed in the first place. I finished watching but there was more than a little eye rolling in the last episode.

katiedempsey-33135 One of my favourite shows by far. The storyline and the acting was outstanding. The acting from everyone even the characters with small parts were still great. The storyline was absolutely brilliant. I didn't expect it to got the way it did in the end but it was such a shock but it was a great shock. There wasn't a character I hated because they were all very interesting. The only problem was I wish we saw more of the teacher / student love affair because I felt like that could of been a great sub plot and the two characters are great and they're both my favourite so I would of liked to see more of that because I thought it was really interesting so hopefully if there a season 2 they will address it and maybe find a way back to eachother and cause a bit of drama in Zoeys (treacher) marraige. Others than that outstanding I loved every minute of it and it had me hooked from the start. I would defenitly recommend to honestly everybody.

markmcblain Michael C. Hall with the worst English accent since Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. This does not bode well. Everything has been thrown into this leftover soup of a story. No spoilers suffice to say no cliche is left out. The acting is wooden. I had splinters after the first few episodes. I stuck with it. It did improve towards the conclusion. Life's too short. There are so many good things on Netflix. This isn't one of them. Avoid.

kitellis-98121 I'm amazed that so many people have slated this series.I'm a pretty discerning viewer, with high standards in regard to production values, quality of writing directing and performance, and overall technical and artistic excellence. I'm a stickler for detail, violently object to having my intelligence as a viewer insulted, and am very critical of everything that I watch. But after avoiding this series (due to bad reviews) for some time, I eventually decided to watch it, expecting the worst.Perhaps, then, my lowered expectations were partly responsible for me enjoying it so much. It certainly wasn't perfect, but I was gripped from beginning to end, and was very well satisfied with the overall quality of the production and all the elements I listed earlier.I did feel that the last episode was a little rushed, and rather desperately flailed around trying to tie-up all the various narrative threads, but it was a satisfying (if somewhat predictable) conclusion.My main concern before watching, having read numerous comments and reviews about it, was Michael C. Hall's accent. I have been a huge fan of his through Six Feet Under and Dexter, but had very low expectations of him being able to pull-off a convincing British accent. (Americans doing bad British accents is also a big pet peeve of mine!)So I was frankly astonished at how well he did it. I am British, and speak with basically the same accent as his character. He sounded just like me, consistently and throughout, apart from two very brief and minor slips - neither of which would have betrayed him as an American (more likely a Brit with a regional accent who's had elocution lessons to sound less provincial).Anyone knocking his accent in this is either just looking for ways to attack and fixing on an obvious target (though an unwarranted one) or else is unable to properly recognise or analyse accents because of their own poor ear for such things.In my opinion, this was very much an above average series, and Hall was fabulous in it.