I was watching the
Human Traffic series unfold as it was originally posted to the web. At the time, as now, I thought it an extraordinary body of work. Mike Johnston -- a critic of much deeper experience than my own -- later
agreed. (Reichman's assent -- unlike Johnston's -- certainly does not help the situation, but you take your intellectual allies where you can get them, I suppose.)
Doesn't mean those who think the work mediocre are wrong -- everyone's entitled to an opinion or three -- but it does mean that serious people can disagree, and that we casually dismiss a major body of work at our peril.
The Americans, of course, is a case in point.
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