When Red remarks in S3 E10 to the excellent baddie David Strathairn that he would be the first American official ever to be tried for war crimes - this is a true statement.And when Strathairn as the head of a fictious section of the CIA states that they have brought down governments in less than 3 hours, this is also likely to be true. Spader speaks for the outsider, the rest of the world as it looks on at America. only if you have watched from the very beginning, a sort of reward for wading through all that c***).
I think what has happened is that Spader has given such a stellar set of performances from S1E1 that the other actors have upped their respective games, as well as the script-writers, and the rest of the production team, to the extent that this is now compulsive viewing (i.e.
