Wow... I cannot believe how much this TV series stinks. Sure it has some highlights, mainly poking fun at small town America and it's quirks, the occasional piece of slapstick humour, and one FBI agent you just have to wonder if this guy could ever be for real, but all in all, I can see why it failed.
Let's start with the opening credits. Every episode in season 1 for 5 minutes before the show starts, the viewer is given a brief overview of the story so far and then must sit through agonisingly slow music covering setting the scene for a country town with picturesque waterfalls, forests, birds everything else to do with the country. Next we have the plot. Now while I don't have anything against long twisted inbred plots and sub plots in stories that build up to a big climax (hey, I'm a huge fan of Neal Stephenson and I love Guy Ritchie's work), this is just freaking ridiculous because it takes too long to get interesting, and then they fell victim to what I dub "Twenty Four Syndrome" when a TV show reaches the climax less than halfway into a season and then it falls into an anti-climatic rebuild to yet another "big thing". So let me give you a one sentence summary so that at least it sounds awesome:
(Spoilers and cynicism ahead)...