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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5078943, member: 833"] I really liked it until the last episode. The cast was great. I was not crazy about Theo James in the lead at first, but I warmed up to him. Kaya Scodelario was excellent, and should have gotten an Emmy nomination. Her character was hard, because the Glass family are crime lords, but they are not the biggest crime lords and the head of the family is in jail. She had to pull off being tough but with a little desperation and vulnerability while bluffing her way through one situation after another. I liked the Freddy character and the actor that played him. He was supposed to be an upper class twit, and he had to be completely over the top because all the other characters were over the top. The show is what you would expect from a Guy Ritchie project, with a lot of eccentric, interesting side characters stealing scenes. Ritchie is not about subtlety. The more recognizable faces (Richardson, Jones, Winstone, Esposito, Hivju) were all good and right for their roles. A core theme of the movie and the show is skewering the "rich" and the idea of a hereditary, landed gentry, and the show does a great job with that. I laughed every time one of the characters who didn't know Eddie referred to him as "posh". One of my few complaints was not having more nobility in the plot, because every episode centering around one of the declining families was very entertaining. I did not like the last episode. The writers could have gotten to the same ending in a more entertaining, less contrived way. I expected better from a Guy Ritchie project. [/QUOTE]

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