OK, I have binged all of Season 3 after being somewhat surprised that there WAS a Season 3; I thought it was "over" after Season 2. But they have certainly laid the groundwork for Season 4, if the popularity prompts the network to pay for it.
On Season 3, I commend the writers for transitioning the teens - and especially the obligatory insufferable teenage daughter - into real people who were more than simply irritants, as such characters tend to be in modern broadcast fiction.
The story line remains beyond my ken, as I cannot even conceive of a "Mexican" drug operation that generates many hundreds of thousands of dollars per day in illicit profits needing to be laundered, but I either accept it or suspend my disbelief, as one might express it. With a spouse whose career (she is retired) was all bound up with a bank ANTI-money laundering protocols, we are cool with the activity of Marty Byrde, and for the most part his actions are true to life. But to be critical - just for fun - I have a few bones to pick with the writers:
It is inconceivable to me that Marty, Wendy, and Ruth were not ALL carrying concealed firearms ALL THE TIME after the events of Seasons 1 and 2. Especially since they have at their fingertips the means to dispose of any stray cadavers at any time, I just cannot believe that they went through this period unarmed.
Wendy's brother [played by Tom Pelphrey] was often toooooo crazy to be believed. The plot line that he, though crazy, is the only one who sees things as they are, is clever, but his persistently doing things that obviously place the entire Byrde family and Ruth (his beloved) in mortal danger - was too much to accept.
Why was Ruth still living in that dilapidated old trailer? She had to be making good money.
For others who have seen it what do you think? Do you agree with me that it was worth watching?
On Season 3, I commend the writers for transitioning the teens - and especially the obligatory insufferable teenage daughter - into real people who were more than simply irritants, as such characters tend to be in modern broadcast fiction.
The story line remains beyond my ken, as I cannot even conceive of a "Mexican" drug operation that generates many hundreds of thousands of dollars per day in illicit profits needing to be laundered, but I either accept it or suspend my disbelief, as one might express it. With a spouse whose career (she is retired) was all bound up with a bank ANTI-money laundering protocols, we are cool with the activity of Marty Byrde, and for the most part his actions are true to life. But to be critical - just for fun - I have a few bones to pick with the writers:
It is inconceivable to me that Marty, Wendy, and Ruth were not ALL carrying concealed firearms ALL THE TIME after the events of Seasons 1 and 2. Especially since they have at their fingertips the means to dispose of any stray cadavers at any time, I just cannot believe that they went through this period unarmed.
Wendy's brother [played by Tom Pelphrey] was often toooooo crazy to be believed. The plot line that he, though crazy, is the only one who sees things as they are, is clever, but his persistently doing things that obviously place the entire Byrde family and Ruth (his beloved) in mortal danger - was too much to accept.
Why was Ruth still living in that dilapidated old trailer? She had to be making good money.
For others who have seen it what do you think? Do you agree with me that it was worth watching?
