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A slow-moving conspiracy spy thriller (from the world of independent analysts working for big state agencies) maintaining a pleasantly down to earth style common to most British productions or genre movies of the seventies. Over the moon? I was too, but... But there are just too many “buts". The first problem is that in the opening episode the main hero is shown as an unparalleled genius, but in everyday life he is more of a clumsy idiot living in his own world. As of the second episode the very same hero is suddenly very practical, cunning and focused, but incredibly stupid (in fact during the whole series, except for the crossword in the prolog, he doesn’t solve anything on his own) not able to fit together painfully obvious information. And what’s worse: the first couple of episodes it seeks a style of its own, an inner fervor and tempo, and there is more mysterious hinting rather than real action. Instead of showing the essential stuff (Will’s search on his own and the everyday routine of his team) it sinks into dead-end trifles like “an assistant trying to solve her personal life". And when it finally finds its style, half of the episodes are gone and it slowly gets to the finale, when we find out that it’s not as clever as it seemed all this time; or in this case, as it was pretending to be. (10/02/2014)