New Show with a lot of promise:





The show is currently 2 episodes in and may be the best new show on cable (2014).

Official site: fxnetworks.com/tyrant

Wow. Uh, not even close. It's perfectly okay. But that's about it.

I agree with this. It's watchable and may have potential, but compared to other FX shows - The Bridge, Fargo - not even close to that quality after 2 episodes.

I think if they sped the show up a bit, it would be much more enjoyable, though not a whole lot better. It's a story we've seen over and over, just in a place we've never really seen it before.

It has a lot of potential. I didn't care for Breaking Bad after 2 episodes, and gave up on it. Then I tried again and gave it a chance, and realized it was the best drama ever.

I surprised myself by not giving up on the show after the pilot. The 2nd episode was already worse, though, it just wasn't going anywhere. I'll give it 1-2 more episodes before I'm done.

Sooo much potential here but I already hate basically every character on this show. Only person that's interesting is the older brother's wife. Who I assume will kill her husband at some point in the show. Do they know their son is gay?

pilot > episode 2 by a pretty big amount

Show has potential. I'll give it a few more episodes before I decide if I want to become a regular viewer.

This show is really crappily written, and most of the characters are just awful (can't tell you how tilting it is that every character speaks English on this show, just with really thick accents). The only characters I think are sort of okay are the lead and his brother's wife. That said, I find the show oddly compelling (just above the line of watchable), and will continue to watch until it gets too terrible to do so. So far, this has been one of the easiest things to predict I've ever seen. Hopefully they start throwing in some nice curveballs. I know Homeland pretty much sucks now, but it's hard to believe this is from the same team.

It's pretty funny, to me, that the show is basically trying to break every taboo it can think of, but American Horror Story kind of broke the mold on that. So, this falls really flat in that regard.

Show is boring as ****

lol@this show

Homeland was the neocon wet dream in action, and this is the sunshine and rainbows vision in action. What is wrong with the people making this show?

I'm 100 percent certain that Bassam becomes an evil dictator by the end of this season.

I'm pretty sure this outcome was set up by the end of the flashback sequence in the pilot.

Bassam displayed the cold cruelty as a child. It scared him, and he ran away from it. He doesn't want to go back because he understands the monster within him.

Idk if I'd call the show LOL. Boring and predictable seem more appropriate.

What's lol is that Bassam is a total "American" outsider, yet he comes in to a foreign country led by a (ruthless?) dictator and does everything he wants. There are no repercussions for him despite doing things like releasing the terrorist daughter of his friend without talking to anyone in power about anything (same with just getting to talk to the husband guy). If that were a real place, it wouldn't be "he's my brother", they would be killing him for usurping their power (or at the very least ejecting him from the country). The Tariq character is about the most believable character in the show so far, and I'm sure they're setting up a big battle between him and Bassam by the end of the season.

So, my lol isn't that quite what you think. It's just so laughably unbelievable (like Homeland's Israel bombs Iran storyline) that it's incredibly hard to take the show even remotely seriously or believably. Suspension of disbelief is a huge deal in shows like this, and I'm finding it impossible so far. There's so much hack dialog in it too, like "We're here for you. As long as it's safe."

This is show, to me, seems like it's the vision of what the Bush Administration thought would happen when they removed Saddam Hussein from power. Bassam is how they thought America would be viewed (can be viewed as the America allegory). Bassam just walks in and makes everyone realize how much better the West is ("this isn't how it's done" or whatever he said was a huge guffaw to me, when the response would have been in reality, "well, this is how it's done here, brother."). That's why it's so lol.

You're judging it from an artistic perspective influenced by your own world view. Nothing wrong with that.

FX is a Fox network, they're selling ad space like this:

A show that plays to the pre-conceived world-view of a large segment of their basic audience. They think that will translate to viewers and they sell that idea to advertisers.

Not everything has to be high art or cutting-edge commentary to make a profit.

The problem is that I think they're intending it to be both high art and cutting-edge commentary...

This show sucks. I'm out! Quit half way through episode 3.

Yeah, I have Ep 3 dvr'ed, just no desire to watch it. I think it's going to get too Soap Opera-ish for me.

Should have somebody suicide bomb the palace and have the kids be in charge.

Should have somebody suicide bomb the palace and put up a "The End" graphic.

Would be goat ending to a one season show.

Channeling the end of "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" are we?

GOAT movie ending graphic.

Never saw that movie.

Cheesy 50's monster movie, but not bad for the genre. In the end the monster dies howling in front of the burning Coney island roller coaster. After his last howl of agony, THE END displays over the carnage..

i love this show. best drama on tv at the moment