1x05 Melencolia I

This show is a rollercoaster of ups and downs.
The plot and story is often falling way too conveniently together. Like the Leviathan guy siding with Langdon just because the progress on the plot relies on it. Him conveniently saving Langdon and Sato at the museum.
The villain on this show comes off as ridicolously cheesy, as a caricature of villains even. It's hard to believe that a father does not recognize his son's eyes nor voice, for Langdon not recognizing him either with his tattos covered up even. Mal'akh knowing things he shouldn't to keep the plot going, like Langdon is wearing an ear piece but he doesn't know that Langdon is "at an impasse" on finding what he wants. Nunez not being killed off while unconscious because...yeah, you guessed it, convenience. Where did that backup come from and why?? Convenience to escalate the situation to keep the plot going. The CGI is generally atrocius as well. Solomon and Kathering in front of "Stonehenge", the guy being comically overrun in the garage...Langdon on the cliff was one of the better usages of CGI.

"Sometimes it takes a while to decide where one's loyalties lie", yeah right. Sato's playing Langdon and Katherine like a fiddle, but the brilliant puzzle solver Langdon doesn't see any clues here, because convenience for the plot. But not realizing Solomon might be putting clues in is just another convenience that - as it seems now - Katherine will figure out later, right? Zukerman is mostly doing great given the circumstances, though, even if Landgon occasionally is a huge effing idiot. In book form I could see past the convenience issues because I'd be reading past that filler stuff rather quickly to get on with the story but in a TV format this is highly difficult to justify and some of it should be changed or cut entirely as it feels dragged out even longer than it needs to be.