I have to say that the series is a bit hard for me to watch because of the sexual perversion. The original British version was only ‘suggestive’. It kinda kills it for me a bit. But, regardless of that, the script is very convoluted and you have to follow closely all of the characters and sub-plots......as they have tried to make this into a lengthy 3-parter with many chapters. The UK version was not as long.
I don’t like shows with sexual perversion, but in this one the sexual perversion is just sort of outlandish and more gratuitous as the series progresses that it strikes me as similar to the evil that overtook Sodom and Gommorah. It’s sort of a symbol of the whole theme that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
I didn’t feel contempt for Frank and Clair in the first series, but little by little, I have come to despise them and be repelled by their evil and manipulative ways. The writers and actors have done a superb job in showing how once evil gets the smallest handhold in a person’s heart, it eventually grows and takes over. Ruthless people become even more ruthless in their attempts to get their way and innocent people are left battered and broken by the wayside. Human life is not valued except as a rung on a ladder to be climbed.
The original British series was excellent.