This is a story that needs no embellishments, needs no gumshoe detective cliches, no bedroom scenes, no affairs, no fabricated personal dramas, yet that is all that the first 2 episodes of this show has delivered. I don't need to see Jeff Daniels character carrying on with multiple women well out of his league, sweating over women half his age, it adds nothing to the story and worse takes away from it.
Bill Camp's fictional liaison with a character who never existed in the Kenyan embassy. Why???, It just pads out an already complicated and hard to follow story with fictitious Hollywood cliche 'drama' that we get from 1000 other shows that don't have this massive real story as their theme.
I wouldn't mind it if it had some relevance to the real story, but it's done so badly that it making the show unwatchable. We want to follow the events of the real life story but are bogged down in the good cop bad cop, philandering husband, cheesy hook ups carry on, done so dumbly and aimed at an audience of stupids, that the core story, and our will to follow it is lost.
There is a massive story to tell here, but not only can't we look to the Looming tower to tell it, we can't even wade our way through it's 10 badly paced episodes to filter the fact from the fiction.