good back-story, and good acting

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The main character gets my sympathy immediately - first scene where his mother's lover is killed by him as a boy to protect his brother. As soon as his brother shows up with a body containing drugs, you know it's going to get much worse. What a beautiful family and predictably dragged into a world of death and betrayal. The tension up until the last episode had me fast forwarding to the conclusions of each loose end, but disappointed that his wife and children are missing without closure; and that the brother who slept with gangsters wife hasn't seen the end of her or her husband. Please, please, please continue with another season! There is so little to watch that has such talented writers, directors and a superb cast that fit each role perfectly.

Total Rip Off Snooze Fest. This "Spotless" should be paying a few different Shows it steals ideas from. It has moments of originality but they are shoehorned into the Show for effect without reason or even any effort to present the vaguest of logic. Not one person behaves in a believable fashion over the piece. The story swiftly becomes embarrassingly repeatedly contrived, and laughably Incredible. The main guys are dullards and you don't care about anyone in it. Appalling drivel. It's Full of a smug presumption that the viewers will accept any gimmicky twist or turn thrown at them. Staggeringly arrogant of them and, from the millions that switched off before it was scrapped in France, utterly wrongheaded. It comes across as if the original scripts were written in French, then translated into English by a non-English speaker.

I watched the first 6 episodes. The first two were intriguing and I thought the premise had a lot of possibilities. Good acting (except for the two French guys) reasonable dialogue, bit 'Hollywood' production. But watching almost an entire episode of the two supposedly nasty protagonists hammering away at each other while discussing the meaning of life, that was just too much ... too silly, too unrealistic, totally absurd. Who writes this crap ? It's like another series that came out a couple of years ago called The American. Great premise, great opening, then it just petered out with absurdities. I'm not going to bother with the rest of the series. Waste of time.

I read the other review & decided to give this show a try, I was pleasantly surprised.The only show to attempt to compare it to (pre-watch) was Dexter & about the only other show you can relate to when you first start watching.The show develops on its own & by the 6th ep the story starts to deepen. When you start watching try a few episodes back to back. Eps 1 to 4 were all watchable & I wanted to see how the story would develop. I was hooked by the 6th ep & looking forward to 7th ep.The acting, writing, directing, sets, locations, story, & etc. . are gre8 and keep you engaged in the story.If this is a French production, then the French have a lot of great shows for us English speakers. The only barrier was language & this show is in English. This is the 2nd French show in English that I really like more than most Shows here in the U.S. Most shows here in the U.S. are predictable, cliché', &/or boring.The sophistication of this show is well worth the watch & a welcome break from the current SOS in the US.Enjoy.