Yes this series is top quality, I watched all 13 episodes when I was off sick last week. Without wanting to give too much away, he gets more and more ruthless as the series goes on...
if so then i'll be giving it a wide berth. the BBc series was brilliant. if it has been Americanized (bigger, brasher, more extreme etc) then it cannot be as good. The original's brilliance was in it's subtlety.