between this show and the strain, FX is really killing the hate-watch game this year.

i'm saying. the leader of the rebel alliance has an american accent. no amount of covering the phone with a handkerchief is gonna hide that, guys. not to mention that it's his own brother. really, i mean, barry is supposed to have grown up in abuddin. they should have hired a lead actor who can do an accent. any accent. they didn't do that, so now we get this ridiculousness. there's so many shaky accents on this show as it is, whatever rayner would have attempted couldn't have been much worse.

the only way to save this show at this point is to make it about leila. let her take over like cookie and empire. she carries every scene she's in, time to bump her up to the top of the call sheet. otherwise, the show isn't really working. they made sammy gay 'cause it was the trendy thing to do, and now they have no idea what to do with that. they've completely written the daughter out of the show. molly is having the world's most boring affair. the family drama is falling completely flat. and the political drama isn't much working either.

i'm glad this show got a second season, even though it mostly stumbled through the first. but after an equally clumsy second season, i really can't make an argument for this continuing.

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