The premise of the show is an interesting one: A complete stranger comes into a company and through ruthless & robotic actions, starts fine-tuning the company to become more profitable.
The show's execution of this is badly done though. Just a few episodes in, it shows this 'ruthless' man in a bar drinking alcohol with one of the employees, and it also shows him eating fast-food takeout MULTIPLE times throughout the series. I don't know much about sociopaths, but I'm 100% certain that sociopaths don't eat takeout food from Benihana or go out for a 'social get-together' with employees. And that's a huge premise of the show, already down the drain... if you don't believe that Christoph Waltz's character is a ruthless sociopath anymore, then what's the point of watching anymore even?
It's obviously not an issue with Waltz's acting, it's just a fundamental mistake with the writing of the script. I mean, in one scene his character is helped up the stairs by a young woman while his character is struggling and straining like an MS sufferer... THAT is not the image you want for this 'ruthless robotic sociopath'. 4/10 because the entire premise of the show gets thrown out the window by the 3rd episode.
The show's execution of this is badly done though. Just a few episodes in, it shows this 'ruthless' man in a bar drinking alcohol with one of the employees, and it also shows him eating fast-food takeout MULTIPLE times throughout the series. I don't know much about sociopaths, but I'm 100% certain that sociopaths don't eat takeout food from Benihana or go out for a 'social get-together' with employees. And that's a huge premise of the show, already down the drain... if you don't believe that Christoph Waltz's character is a ruthless sociopath anymore, then what's the point of watching anymore even?
It's obviously not an issue with Waltz's acting, it's just a fundamental mistake with the writing of the script. I mean, in one scene his character is helped up the stairs by a young woman while his character is struggling and straining like an MS sufferer... THAT is not the image you want for this 'ruthless robotic sociopath'. 4/10 because the entire premise of the show gets thrown out the window by the 3rd episode.