Goliath was pretty good. The main thing I learned is that imdb's reviews are as bad as Goodreads and I swear people are watching a completely different show and inventing things that weren't in the material. One review from the final season invented a sexual abuse plotline off of an uncle giving a crying niece candy, a well known trait of solely pedophiles. Most of the reviews had constant bitching about nothing making sense even as it all made sense, the series just only revealed things shortly before the investigating characters uncovered it. The funniest part is lots of these people wished it would return to the first season when it did the same exact thing. And then they complained about the latter seasons being less realistic or whatever when the first season was completely absurd and had the dumbest ending of any of the seasons. Where I would agree is that the later seasons are less about lawyering and Billy Bob Thornton becomes more of a private investigator who happens to be a lawyer, based on the final season this seems to be what Thornton may have actually wanted the series to be. Also the reviews had a bunch of whining about what were the show doing references to much more famous media because the reviewers didn't understand they were homages.
My main complaint with the show would be it spends some time depicting useless information so certain actors can do a bunch of ACTING, it only piqued my interest in the third season when it, perhaps unintentionally, suggested something truly sinister about one of the villains but it never followed up on it or tried any kind of explanation. I think it's real intent was to demonstrate why the other villain is in control of their operation but for me it made him almost sympathetic because it hinted that he's dealing with a complete psychopath rather than someone with mere problems.
Patriot is pretty awesome. I'm even favorable to it ending where it does versus had it gotten another season and felt it had to resolve more things. People who couldn't follow Goliath would definitely be lost with this. It maybe gets a little too self-wankery with some of the scenes but enough were great that I'll allow it. The framing of even the bad ones are usually incredible. It's a shame nobody will ever watch this because I'd like more people to rip off some of the action scenes instead of continuing the Bourne shit into a third decade. The second season shows a bunch of hogs btw.
My main complaint with the show would be it spends some time depicting useless information so certain actors can do a bunch of ACTING, it only piqued my interest in the third season when it, perhaps unintentionally, suggested something truly sinister about one of the villains but it never followed up on it or tried any kind of explanation. I think it's real intent was to demonstrate why the other villain is in control of their operation but for me it made him almost sympathetic because it hinted that he's dealing with a complete psychopath rather than someone with mere problems.
Patriot is pretty awesome. I'm even favorable to it ending where it does versus had it gotten another season and felt it had to resolve more things. People who couldn't follow Goliath would definitely be lost with this. It maybe gets a little too self-wankery with some of the scenes but enough were great that I'll allow it. The framing of even the bad ones are usually incredible. It's a shame nobody will ever watch this because I'd like more people to rip off some of the action scenes instead of continuing the Bourne shit into a third decade. The second season shows a bunch of hogs btw.
Spoiler: and this is one of the wildest scenes I've ever seen in a show 
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