Originally Posted by trevor tiger:
“After reading this I feel safe to post on here. I'm totally underwhelmed by this cliched, aren't we brilliant - not, show.
Quite frankly I'm baffled at the over the top response it's received. Do no others see it's just the emperor's new clothes of drama?”
I watched the show at US pace (don't worry, i wont post spoilers! I'm not a douche

) and i didn't get that vibe from it at all, infact i think that it took quite a lot of people (the creators included) by surprise when it started getting awards and increasing it's ratings week on week. Channel 4 may have been marketing it as "the best thing ever" due to all the award wins, but in the US it built its audience on positive reviews of the pilot and then strong word of mouth, which it wouldn't have done if it was "the emperors new clothes of drama" as you so hilariously put it. If it was the "emperors new clothes of drama" it would have died a death like the glowingly reviewed 'Lone Star' from last season.
It's a very good show, and the positive comments about it and the awards it's received are all well deserved (even if i personally would have given Best Drama to Game of Thrones

Homeland would have been my runner up though).
Also, for the record, i feel that Claire Danes seems to walk away with all the glory in terms of the acting praise, but for me personally i felt that Damien Lewis delivered the superior performance, he really was fantastic in my opinion, especially as the season goes on.