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Originally Posted by ilduclo
A few other discrepancies. No way to launder that amount of cash thru Tiny Town. Distro by boat? In bibles? Mexican gangs sending 1 guy to guard 50$ million? Dang, suspension of disbelief is required. Just poor writing.
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Hey, goddammit... I thought you liked the show! You said it was good! Don't bitch out on me. Yeah, the premise of middle drug guy "testing" main guy and sending him off with that much money out of "curiosity" and "too see if he can pull it off" was... yeah. That was dumb. But without it? No show.
All in all, the effect of the show was, in my opinion, greater overall than that of the sum of any discrepancies. You gotta "believe" Superman can fly, or there's no point... right?
ALSO... I'm not a drug dealer. Don't know shit about money laundering. But I do know a bit about accounting, statistics, risk management, etc. and I think from that angle, the show was pretty goddamn well written and believable. Seriously, if they didn't do their homework on agriculture they certainly did it on the actuarial side of things. The main characters were the real pull... all great. The tone of the show was a pull. Good, ominous, realistic.
The hardest part for me was listening to that godawful accent affected (overly so) by "Pa Whatshisass. What the fuck was that exactly? Little bit of Appalachian, little bit of Texas twang, little bit of Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" mixed with a little bit of halting weirdo borderline-foreign (like, Australian trying not to sound Australian or something) all mixed together in a big mess of accent chili that would win NO cookoffs, not even in the Ozarks.
Honestly, I watched the show because it had a Kanye song in the trailer and because Jason Bateman has never really let me down. I was surprised at how by-the-balls it had me by the end of the first episode.