Why was I bored by a show that tried so hard to not be boring?

Throughout the show, there's some enthralling sequences, but everything else was just a complete drag. The highlights were the opening scene and the finale, but virtually nothing from this show is anything we haven't seen before from a story perspective. And it's usually fine if you can do something we've seen before well, but this is just so middle-of-the-road in my opinion.

As far as the show's presentation, it's a mixed bag.

The acting's decent from most of the actors,
The music was stereotypically average,


I usually never "check out" of movies or shows when I watch them, but around episode 3 I just decided to finish watching the whole thing for the sake of it. I'm all for slow burns in media, but this was strangely drab for me.

It's not horrible, it's not great.

It's....average.