I would if I could, but I won't have access to it for the foreseeable future. I'm actually curious to hear spoilers on it, so if you get to the end and want to share that'd be very cool (in a spoiler-marked thread, of course!) .

I've heard some really mixed things about it: from people loving it to outright trashing it. There's nothing unusual about mixed opinions for many shows, but I'm curious what your response is to some of the common criticisms I've heard--poor dialogue, poor character development, wooden acting. Is there truth in any of that?

Just finished watching. First of all, it was better than I expected, and I expected it to be pretty bad. The acting is ok from everyone, even Stiles does her best. The script I imagine was decent, so was operator's work. But what happened then i think, the producers laid their little greedy hands on it and somewhere on the final stages of production the filmed material was cut to pieces and put back together as something much dumber and disjoined. Overall, this is light, not clever, not good, doesn't require to pay any attention, looking pretty, entertaining for the evening. If you want to switch your brain off and relax - this will do. If you want something engaging, smart, blink-and-you-miss-half-of-the-plot detective/mystery - go watch State of Play (2003 mini-series, not 2009 fat Russell Crowe's version ).

I've seen this now. I'm not exactly sure what I think of it. It's watchable. It's pretty. I think the actors do good work, except maybe Julia Stiles in the final scene, where her expressions and line delivery sometimes seem way too contrived; then again, the scene itself is more or less contrivance gone wild, so maybe that adds to the issues for her. Individual scenes between individual actors work well. Taken as a whole, though, the plot feels rather dumb. And I could certainly do without those cliché Boris Badenov Part 1 & Part 2 characters, who get pretty ridiculous, in part because for the plot to advance as it does requires them and their henchmen/woman being grossly incompetent--This same description fits the Interpol detective as well.