Well, I finally watched it (thanks, Sable :) ), so here's my review.
Sean is great - really good and he seems to be enjoying himself. Not surprising; he's a damned good actor and this role lets him stretch a bit, so it has to be more fun.
The supporting cast is . . . um . . . uh . . .
Ali Lauter is okay. Just old enough to be believable as a senior agent and talented enough to pull it off (unlike that chick on Blacklist - yerg). She's a bit tense in the role, but I suspect that will improve. The character itself isn't all that believable, though. If she is the agent in charge of the covert ops, the chances of her doing field work are between slim and none - though it appears that financial cutbacks have severely impacted the LA field office.
Steve Harris as the boss? What is up with that? Is he supposed to sound like he's reading from a storyboard? Harris is a better actor than that . . . and please tell me he isn't the token black guy.
The young techy kids. The one they killed off was more interesting than the other one - maybe she'll grow on me.
The chiselly jawed agent? A non-starter. What was his purpose in the pilot?
The ex-wife and kid? The kid is cute, but nothing but filler. The ex-wife? Who knows? The premise of Odem having an ex-wife and kid? No where good to go with that. Unrealistic if supposed to be authentic - if part of the "big secret" then it implies someone has been successfully manipulating Odem for at least a decade. Gets a resounding "meh" as a plot device.
The dialogue bounces between interesting and painfully trite - as if they passed the screenplay around a table of talented writers and talentless hacks.
I'm unconvinced that they can successfully combine the standard "good guy catching bad guy" genre (yawn) with the much more interesting (in this I disagree completely with the "areyouscreening" review just above) and potentially complex and intellectually challenging story of watching Martin Odem figure out what the hell is going on in his life.
In the end, I'm hopeful Sean can carry it - because I don't think there's enough there there to stand.