Meandering, waste of potential

If this drama has stuck to the pathos of the first two episodes, we might have had a really decent show about the world of professional fraudsters. The set up was neat. A family of scammers who do small time "documentaries" (the euphemism for an orchestrated swindle) who come undone when they are taken in by a bigger, more clever fraudster. Their daughter, who has kept herself out of her family's less than legal methods of attaining wealth, attempts to take revenge by learning all the tricks of the trade, only to fall in love and decide that she must be the one to leave this world behind.
There is a great story to be told in this summary alone and it's a shame the show decided that it would shelf it for something with no clear direction, populated with a cast of characters who have no clear motives, with a timeline that jumps back and forth so frequently it's hard to track whether we are watching a scene from the past, or the present.
The writer seems to think that a confused timeline equals a suspenseful show - but it does not. It just leads to a directionless plot with an inordinate amount of time rehashing moments that were already clear and meeting (then meeting again!) people we care very little about. The pacing is so slow, it is a wonder this is supposed to be about the fast paced world of scams and clever fraudsters.
Watch the first two episodes to get a taste of what this show should have been about, then drop it and write your own fan fiction - it will probably be better.

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