Product: State Of Play (2008)
Rating: 3.0
Weak ending; Do not watch as marathon - script/logic problems become too apparent
This review is intended as a supplement to the other reviews here--look to those other reviews for summaries of this series.I watched the whole series over the course of a few days and consequently details from the early episodes were still fresh in my mind at the end. Some early events that should have been red herrings--intended to be misinterpreted--turned out to have no logical justification. While I catch more of such problems than the typical viewer, you probably will benefit from having larger gaps (similar to the original broadcasts).Even ignoring those failings, the "resolution" was a major letdown with too many of the explanations being unlikely and forced, or the actions being grossly out of proportion to the presented motivations. A good story has you say "Of course! Now I understand" but this one is "OK...If you insist." This may be the result of an American perspective, but then this review is for an American audience. For example, a shorthand reference to events that is evocative to the British audience may trigger only skepticism among audiences unfamiliar with those events.If I had rated this series before the final episode or two (of 6), I would have given it 4 or 5 stars.