Canaan

The story and the first few episodes start off really interesting, you even think you might enjoy it all the way through to the end, but then the organization became too boring a device for the series, full of clichés and things left unexplained, where the only thing that caught my interest was the bar owner/his mute employee or the former CIA officer and the victims of the Ua virus (sorry for the spoiler, but it's nothing major and most people won't even notice that I've committed a spoiler here anyway). I found their relationship interesting, but unfortunately we didn't find anything out about it until the end of the series. Before that, there was nothing interesting otherwise – the shootouts were interspersed with scenes of comfort, friendship, and investigation. And then the story of the interesting couple was over, and while they were an interesting couple, I didn't mind that their story ended because it ended pretty clichéd (so I felt a certain sense of accomplishment when it ended). Suddenly we're down to the last two episodes. Again, there's a feeling that this could really catch my attention. It even manages to if you give it a little help. Only then do you realize that even having sailed through the series with your eyes almost closed, it's awfully easy to be moved by the ending. Even if it's a happy ending. Or is it...? Depends on who you're rooting for. I suppose more could have been made of it, unfortunately I can't think how, and unfortunately the creators couldn’t either. It feels a bit like they didn’t see it through to the end. I didn't particularly like the opening or ending themes, they're not catchy, so I can't give plus points for that either. Well, so be it, kind of a not so great 3 stars. (12.04.2010)