Part 3

I am giving this series a shot because I enjoyed The Wire so much, but I found the first two episodes a little slow. In this episode, with the Canadian element, I felt like I was finally watching something which wasn't predictable (to me the basic problem with the series is that the "imagine America had turned out like this" has been done to death, so the context, in my opinion, doesn't need as much setting up).

However, as other reviewers have noted, the English accents are a distraction for British viewers. Not Dick Van Dyke crazy, but the kind of performance which sounds off and unnatural from the first sentence. Odd considering Simon used two Britons in starring roles in the Wire, that he couldn't find a couple more.