[spoiler]I don't have any problem with the series having no resolution or a "bad" ending. My issue is with the writing. The pacing in the series was all over the place: horrible dialogue, some scenes dragged on for too long without contributing anything (like the start of the last episode) or maybe just bad acting (with some exceptions). Too much time was spent on the police work (which was hard to follow) and not enough on the actual mystery or the gravity of the crimes committed (2nd episode seemed like it was going somewhere, but not really). Other than the gun fight in the middle and the drug/sex mansion there was just nothing interesting, no real wonder, no real "wow", no real "damn that's fucked up".[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I think one of the other things was - a lot of the police work, wasn't cleared-up for most until the last 2 episodes. This is where things were really kicking into gear here. B/c Episode 8 really tried to explain things for people not paying attention closely + those not hitting any forums or sites analyzing things, w/ too much exposition. Those who had a clue what was going on were....not surprised by anything. Everything took obvious & predictable routes. There weren't many surprises. Things you expected to be hints early on that were doing foreshadowing - yep, you were likely right.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Everything was just so forced, so ... gah, I don't know, off? The series had a few cool scenes, but that's it. I get the message the show was trying to deliver (we are all fucked?), but the delivery was just bad. It was a shit story that tried too hard to look fancy.[/spoiler]
I think some of the casting, writing, and whatnot was just all over the place. Certainly, somebody should've stepped in and hit the edit button. So much stuff, could've either been thrown out or expanded upon much more.
Pretty much - my feelings are similar to yours. Namely, the writing + pacing was all over the place. I still think this could've been told in 3 to 6 episodes, not 8.
[spoiler]Characters were all over the place. I didn't like that all of them had some sort of hidden secret. Other than Ray, there was nothing that contributed to the story. Did it really matter that the chick was molested when she was young? Not really. [/spoiler]
[spoiler]I think it was a red herring to make us think that maybe Ani's dad might've had some involvement in the sex ring - b/c if anyone would've known about that guy w/ that kind of hippie-looking bus, the one Ani saw at the party when she saw the guy and had the flashback - mayber her dad did. Pretty much, nope. Seems like he didn't have a clue, when she saw her dad in either Ep 6 or Ep 7. Red herring thrown.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]That the cool cop was gay? Yeah, who cares, we all have issues. And that's the thing right there, I can't even remember the 2 cops names, only Ray. Heck, the lady chick wasn't even involved in the last episode, other than rescuing Ray at the train station or whatever it was. It was like they added the backstories for the sake of having fucked or normal or whatever characters. [/spoiler]
[spoiler]Revealed in the final episode, but which I figured the entire time - the cops + politicians were, more or less, trying to set all of these cops up.
I really had this bad feeling, when the lady cop brought them all back together in Ep 5 (which was after the shootout w/ the gang in Ep 4 that this would be the case). Of course, that lady got killed off in her car, left for dead - killing off another loose end.
Pretty much, close to the End of Ep 8: everything got covered-up.
And who knows if the writer is going to follow through w/ all the stuff Ani gave him. We didn't see it happen, so who knows. [/spoiler]
