I really like the storyline with this show - it keeps you interested and you always want to know what's coming up, or where it's going to lead. However... the acting is not the best. Eve Mauro who plays Rece is as bad an actress as you'll ever see outside of a porn movie. She's cringe-worthy. Her partner is excruciating to watch. The boss is also really bad. He's supposed to be sad and mad at the same time, but just looks like he's constipated but wondering if it's going to be diarrhea if he farts. Fortunately, the rest of the cast are a tiny and I mean a TINY bit better at over acting. The dialogue is just passible. Production is pretty good. They could easily have tightened up the editing and gotten this series in under 5 episodes, there's just too much stuff we don't need to care about or see played out. Episode 5 is a complete throwaway. *Note: it says 8 episodes, but in fact there are only 7. I looked for ages for the mysterious 8th episode only to find the synopsis was what happened during episode 7. Anyway... looks like they are going for a 2nd season. I WON"T be watching it. This was too painful to watch even during the plandemic with not much on. Think I'll be watching grass grow soon. If you can suffer through the downside to this show, there's something to watch that's entertaining. If you've sat through Prison Break, 24, anything from CSI or The Blacklist, you can do it!! 4.5/10

Summary: I had my rating initially at 6 out of 10, lowered it to 3 out of 10 and now at 2 out of 10. Really - dont bother with this crap. The best actress in this series is probably the small girl Lauren Gravitt playing Laura. All others should ask their money back from acting school. Episode 1 started out really interesting and I was instantly hooked...... then....... it crashed and burned basically. What a b.s. scenes. Some are just retarded. The car chase was utterly crazy. Some dialogues are.... 'strange' if to be kind :) It's just a lot of small things. Like in episode 3, Rees is giving a presentation to a group of people and you hear her talking. Then the big boss comes in, walking around the glass box and you hear his footsteps. While he is outside of that glass box. And then he comes in. Uhhhh what the fck :) From episode 1, into episode 2, there is a burial - between a death and being buried theres usually a few days. He seems to have been instantly buried. Nobody bothered to clear out his appartment in the mean time, so its still all there end of episode 3. Even if it was a violent death. Nobody looked into it. Really? Or how did he get buried at a public cemetary. If the bad guys buried him (alive) on purpose, then why was that in a cemetary and not just somewhere in a back forest or something. And why in a coffin? So many questions.... And just some huge plot holes... or at least seemingly huge plot holes. Why is our main guy not asking questions to this Claire woman. She claims "I was there, I called the police". So why was she there? How did she know where he would be in his car at what moment so she could hit him 'to safe his life'. He's just all accepting it without question. And if she called the police, then again - how did he get buried in a public cemetary? The series just doesnt make any sense. I am still interested in the series, but it all seems just a huge hot mess. EDIT: haha in episode 4 daddy forgot how old his daughter is. She's 8 in episode 1 and suddenly daddy thinks she;'s 9. Must have hit his head too hard? :P ok this series blows. Stupidity all over. EDIT 2: episode 5/6/7 - the dialogues are getting worse and worse and more and more dump stupid and pointless. The supporting music is ''really'' elevating the drama (not). Also since it's keep being the same music over and over and over again. Even there the amount of available budget seems to have been limited :) And to top it all off: an experienced FBI agent is taking her brand new boyfriend to a safe house. Really? And she doesnt get suspended or at the very minimum suspended. Again.... really? "Sir I got something. other agent: OK we got something, lets load up and move out!" Uhh.... what do yo have? Is it actionable even???

the worst of all, dam*n

A good premise that suffers from the most horrible of execution. Really wanted this to be better. Too bad this is not worth continuing. Can't decide if the problem is writing, direction, acting or some combination or, perhaps, all the above.

Everything about the Cypher on The Roku Channel feels cheap, like soft core Cinemax movie, and the script is terrible, there's second tier actors and third rate acting. The dialog is wooden and is 80% exposition. Yikes!