First of, it's very enjoyable to watch Amanda Seyfried act. It really looks like she's enjoying herself and trying out crazy faces and voices which makes me smile. Her enthusiasm for acting is perfect for such a TV show as the energy is found in every scene. The acting overall in the show is fantastic because of the range of emotions. You often have wooded actors here and there, but in this show everyone was great. The younger actors just spoke a bit more slowly and made it feel real that way. William H. Macy was really great! Fantastic. Sam Waterston from Law & Order was great. Stephen Fry was great, shame he couldn't have more episodes. An actor called Bill Irwin was fantastic. There are like 5 other actors I could name who all were amazing. Especially the older guys. I can't praise the acting enough.

The story was great. All episodes feel expensive and have tight stories with plenty of characters. I haven't read the book yet, but there are some issues with the story. Hollywood always needs a reason for everything. So no one for example is born with a great talent or a mean streak. Something must happen for the character to become that character. Which is fine in fiction. But here they force a lot of modern progressive ideas into the show. There are for example 3 women who talk about being attacked by men. And several other women mention how women suffer in the tech industry and how women usually are not allowed to become CEO's. This evil men storyline then is starts to become the bad guy instead of the actual bad guys. At some point it makes sense they would whine about such stuff. But I think they became greatly confused about the story. The story is that a hot blonde lied to investors and created a fake company - that's it. The story is not that something bad happened to a young girl and she then started to lie with a superhuman ability. That's not really how humans work. Unless she was emotionally stumped from the get go she is not going to develop this kind of personality out of nowhere and forget how to be a functional human being. That's the whole point of her former professor calling her a charlatan at university. It was clear from the get go before she even did anything. Instead the writers try to spin this tale of a poor confuses woman and her poor confused boyfriend. She wants revenge on men. He is a foreigner who wants to punish racists in USA or something. It's just pure nonsense. They were both extremely greedy and narcissistic. The doc tries to make the society they live in into the bad guy and they are just trying to take what is theirs. We don't really follow any investors getting mad or any patients suffering from the tests. We only see smiles unless someone gets fired.

Secondly there are plenty of missing parts here. Like much of the detective work is just someone doing something extremely obviously wrong and then someone good right away pointing it out. No one is looking much into things or collecting evidence. Stuff just happens. We really needed a journalist to travel around and finding people or a worker questioning things. It likely didn't happen much in real life. But what happened would make for a great story if told step by step. Instead people stumble into evidence out of nowhere. Not even looking for it.

Besides the progressive moral themes that make the evil leads look good the show is great. But I also understand why they felt the need to make the bad guys into the good guys. You kinda need viewers to care for them.