Seen the first few and it's good. Not as snappy, violent or moving forward as other series. In fact, it's quite sedate and has gone for a more cerebral PI in Chinatown approach.
It's 4K status, setting and, clearly, an awareness of COVID has a major impact here.. It looks like anything from: DaytimeTV with odd filmic backdrops, to green screen and studio bound and, onto an almost play like feel at times; with some characters generally sat chatting at safe distances apart, in varying shifts - Waiting for Godot.
There's another Lynchian setting and set up within Billy's repeat dream sequence, that won't let up, in it's attempt at telling him something important to address. These are the only juxtaposition to a pretty bog standard slow boiler pace and air for it all.
J.K. Simmons is playing to type, yet again,. but then so is the boy who saw dead people, Osment, as another doofus/tit.
Good to have Bruce Dern as, yup, another curmudgeon but at least he is a bit more toothsome in his ideals with attack in mind.
Nina's Patty is always fun but could anyone imagine a life (or solid week) with her?!
The story is pretty uninventive and done many times before but, I am enjoying it overall, in what I'd have to say is a comfortably familiar feeling with it all...