Citadel is the definition of style over substance. It’s gorgeous to look at, featuring beautiful people doing glossy-sheened, spy-themed globetrotting, but it becomes quickly apparent that the producers didn’t spend much of the $300 million budget on the script because the already generic story is woefully underdeveloped (not to mention eye-rollingly dumb at parts). Sure, it has some marginally fun twists, but they are so superficial and in service of characters that are so underwritten that they barely register. It feels like the vibe of this show’s writers’ room was “do you know what would look cool?” instead of “do you know what would be interesting?”