I've enjoyed this series very much so far. The characters are played very well by the actors and for once they wrote the child character as not overly bratty and annoying.

My main gripe is this tendency in modern series to grind the action to a halt with stand alone flashback episodes. I know not every episode can move the story along and knowing a characters past can explain their actions now. However these episodes are usually overlong and they lack subtlety.

This is the case with episode 3 and 7 of this series. We get 1 hour long episodes that could easily have been condensed in 15 minutes. The audience is not dumb, writers need to stop thinking they are.

It was especially problematic in episode 7 because episode 6 was so good and then we were left hanging. These breaks in the story actually kill momentum and do not serve as cliffhangers like the writers think they do. A measure of proof is episodes 3 and 7 are the lowest rated here. They are fine episodes but momentum and story killers not enhancers.

That being said this is an outstanding series and the friendship between the two leads is very endearing and well played.