I really wanted to like it, but the directing and writing is just so sloppy and relies heavily on bashing you over the head with the message, it's hard to enjoy

I really wanted to like it, but the directing and writing is just so sloppy and relies heavily on bashing you over the head with the message, it's hard to enjoy. I mean, they literally had the "bad guy" go beat up a homeless man a few episodes in (it had nothing to do with the plot -- they just wanted to throw that in there) when his character became too sympathetic. For all the hours of this show that I watched, it still feels like the characters are very two dimensional, even the main character. I did like some of the things they put in -- a recurring character revealing himself to be a hallucination of the main character when his reflection does not appear in a subway window, for instance. But it's just been difficult to slog through lately. Side plots that I normally wouldn't mind now feel like they're just thrown in to lengthen the series.