Oh - ya know what - It really felt like actor Nick Gehlfuss was being his renegade character from Chicago Med. Personally I never liked that about that character or that era of Chicago Med, where doctors were going rogue. And that's exactly how he feels here.  Maybe the actor really doesn't have the range to do much else; like he's really only got one delivery style.

It was nice to see some other actor cross over in both directions of FBI <-> CIA.

• Bill Goodman character feels exactly like Dr. Holstead during his "renegade doctor" phase on Chicago Med.  Same delivery of lines etc.  Which isn't a bad thing per sae: John Wayne was famous but every character was exactly the same whether it was a cowboy, soldier or detective. Just shows the actor does a type but not a lot of range.  Probably good so long as he doesn't stray.

• Boss lady made a pretty huge leap in logic going from

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  Catch one bad guy, to "dismantle their entire network"

• Decent prosthetic work sewing up the wound

• I agree with @WilliamDrakeMcGregor about both lead character feeling like a good match, not opposites.  They are less oil/water than we saw in Lethal Weapon that's for sure.

• Boss lady did a decent job of playing shy.  First time I've seen that actress do a meek scene.

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  How did they not see it was the water that was spiked when she didn't drink it.  So much for trained agents.

• Most of the plot points were equally predictable as the other shows of this genre: Not worse, not better.

• I'm never a fan of magic tech but way too many shows do it (See SWAT)

• Another generic gripe that this show falls into like 20 others regardless of genre, everyone acts like nobody has cameras these days.  Just wander around houses snooping... wander around the bad guy's lair and back offices... like nobody heard about so much as a nanny cam.

• At least they look around when in unfamiliar buidlings. It always annoys me when agents know exactly where to go in a building they've never been in before

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  The renegade cowboy unpredictable agent is the one that gets the calm negotiator, connect with the bad guy on a deep human level speech?

  - Whisky Tango Foxtrot?

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  Catching one mid-level bad guy gets them 3 cells?  The very nature of *cells* is to stop that sort of thing. That's the whole point of a single 'handler'.

Feels like most of the other shows in this genre.  Ya have to suspend reality when watching TV.  Other than "The Pitt" the medical shows are wrong... Police shows... Whatever.

Well... Not every sci-fi can be "The Expanse" and not every espinage show can be "The Night Agent" or the Bourne franchise.

What exactly makes this show "CIA" ? - This feels more like special division of the FBI or something.
I actually think the only reason they pretend to be a CIA operation is to make it look like they have less resources available on U.S. soil - no big investigation, CSI oder SWAT teams...just a small group of blah, blah, blah.

Tom Ellis character is supposed to be a "loose cannon" but comes across more boring than Nick Gehlfuss character. They somehow managed to make these two characters almost exactly the same...doesn't really work well.

Since it was the first episode, it was good enough for me to give it one more episode to see if it gets better.

Here's hoping.

As WilliamDrakeMcGregor said, I'll give it one more episode.

I was looking forward to this, Tom Ellis as a CIA agent...and the trailer was good as well...
But that first episode...wow...absolutely horrible.

The actors performances are lackluster and everyone looks bored. Not only that, the acting is also not very good - especially from the two leads Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss. I expected more from them.

Everything the premise promises, from the "fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon" to the "odd couple" is non-existent.
The differences between the two characters are seemingly only because the script says so...without anything to back it up. When they argue I have no idea why and what they are really arguing about - nothing that happened gives cause for this.

Gonna give it one more episode...