Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

michael@piston.net The problem with this series is that it is too real. I am watching it on Amazon "Unbox" and having just finished episode 2 I hate, absolutely hate, Fark, the leader of the Cell. I cannot recall any television series ever having this emotional impact. Remember the old tag line for horror movies "Just keep telling yourself its only a movie"? Well I find myself repeatedly reminding myself that its "only TV". But of course it isn't only TV is it? The possibility of a cell such as the one portrayed here actually operating in the United States is certainly within the range of plausibility. That's what gives this program its vicious authenticity. And that's why I hate it so much.

paul2001sw-1 The nature of the terrorist threat facing America is certainly complex and multifarious: it is also almost certainly nothing like the threat depicted in this drama series about a terrorist cell, with its Dr. Evil-like figurehead, square-jawed FBI agents, and a hero who, predictably, allows his love life to interfere with his professional one. The concept of the series is itself problematic, the premise is spelt out at the very beginning (terrorists plan a horrific attack) so one knows that any intermediate dramas are ultimately red herrings, destined to come to nothing before the big one at the end. The program also suffers from an overdose of solemnity, there's no sense of humour and very little humanity (in either the script or the characters), and the earnest attempts to balance the emphasis on Muslim fundamentalism with a show of respect for true Islam is clumsy and vaguely risible. Glossily-produced and with a pertinent subject, 'Sleeper Cell' can be considered a wasted opportunity. Steve Earle, in his three-minute song 'John Walker's Blues', offered more insights into why an American might become a terrorist than this series manages in almost eight hours.

emattos-1 First Season was gripping, edge of your seat action/adventure/mystery possibly the best TV of the year.Season two took a page out of the 24 writers book of how-to's, take a great idea with a handful of characters the audience really cares about and ruin it by adding eight handfuls of characters you could really care less about. The story gets stretched thin by the end of the first episode with eight new characters on top of the characters from the first season, plus you have Darwin not wanting to go back to UC work but as every TV cliché would have it he is pulled back in against his will.This is not what viewers of the first season signed up for, we signed up for a great story that was as realistic as it was hard hitting. Not cliché characters, a bumbling idiot boss, the hard-ass parent with whom the main character has to reconcile with, the evil character who has a softer side, the Mexican ex-con with gang affiliations, the tough guy who you find out is gay, let me see if I can think of anymore characters that could be in any number of lame TV shows from the 70's to todays crappy programming? How about the girlfriend that is asked to choose between her man and her child? Or the woman who at any moment can blow her man's cover by speaking to the wrong person.Season one main characters: the cell (4) the girlfriend (1) the boss (1) Season 2 main characters: the cell (5) old cell (2) girlfriend (1) the boss (1) dad (1) lover (1) military good cop bad cop (2)

brynthe_blade I'm not sure how this could have been better, so I gave it a 10. The acting was excellent - the main woman was so HOT - the chap who played Darwyn was a smouldering, pensive character who showed the inner turmoil he was suffering (the truck driver's death is one example)excellently. The storyline was believable and the series length was just about right (i.e. I love Lost, but will it ever end?). As a Brit i tend to think of Yanks as gung ho. The LAPD were in their ill advised attempts to arrest him, but the other agencies were portrayed positively. My main thought about programmes like this (and the also excellent 24) is - could it happen? Would it happen? Is it happening now? Possibly, probably.I hope they do another series, but after reading some of the previous comments, it would appear not.To summarise - If you haven't seen it, make sure you do.