I don't understand why the average reviews here are so high, the point of a great TV show is to tell a story. The show does a good job of setting up its fundamental premise, which is why I stuck with it, but enduring the appalling acting of Karl Urban as Billy Butcher was torture. It's not just his pathetic attempt at a cockney accent that seems to swerve into Australian/Kiwi for every other syllable, it's the unending tedium of his swearing which fundamentally then makes any real attempt to expressing anger completely meaningless. The show has so much potential but at least based on the first season doesn't seem to have made any attempt to actually explore some really interesting ideas.