[SanoBaron]

can I say my main problem with Drive is not the plot, or the characters, it's the lackadaisical grip they seem to have when they wanna make it a mystery.

like, my god, I got so pissed off the more I saw what they considered good mysteries in the show. they don't explain anything, and sometimes the viewer isn't even allowed to know what clues ARE.

I mean, it doesn't even seem to want to follow Knox's commandments on what makes a good mystery.

Knox's "Ten Commandments" (or "Decalogue") are as follows:

The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to know.
All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.
No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
No Chinaman must figure in the story.
No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
The detective himself must not commit the crime.
The detective is bound to declare any clues which he may discover.
The "sidekick" of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal from the reader any thoughts which pass through his mind: his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.

and it doesn't have to follow all of them. I know it can't follow the second rule for obvious reasons. but, I know what made me quit the show.

it wasn't Mach's personality. it was the fact that they showed the roidmude was left handed, but shinnosuke only fought it once, and the guy suspected to be a roidmude only fired a gun once. like, not even in a way where the viewer could know it was a clue. I just got so sick of it. and it's not even specifically that. that instance was just the last straw.

btw, when Knox says "chinaman" he's referring to a fu manchu character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu not an actual chinese person.