I thought this started well, but began to suffered from its own storyline: all the interesting characters got killed off, even the undercover cop who I was following with interest because he was revealing the set-up behind the scenes.
There was never much doubt about who would ultimately win, and when the winner made the completely out-of-character choice to not use his money, I completely lost interest; abandoned the series with about half of the last episode to go. Thus for me, it failed totally in that writers' dilemma: not the one about how to start a story, but the one about how to sustain interest when all the main action is clearly over. Give me a two-minute scene of James Bond, cracking a joke to some bikini-clad beauty as the camera pans away from the beach, please: that's how a movie should end