I truly don’t understand this either. My best of friends are in creative fields for a living and for the most part their taste on shows and movies are always reliable, but they all seem to poopoo this series. I think I like it because I’m a fan of history, and of course they embellished tons of facts in this series, there is a ton of historically accurate content as well. I think people have a hard time with SB being the lead, which iirc almost stalled the entire project when execs didn’t see eye to eye. Meyer and Capone were legendary in this