37/47
Nominated at the Sovereign Awards (2024)
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CIA operative Joe tries to balance his personal and professional lives as the spearhead of the agency’s war on terror, etc… Best New Show, after the disappointing 4th season of Jack Ryan and the lackluster performances all around, this felt much better in every way.
Great acting from everyone
It looks really well made and the action/fight scenes look great. I think most of the criticism of this show in the comments section seems to boil down to how unrealistic it is because of the whole female operative thing, and I, as a man, don’t care for a good female-led action show.
It’s the original IP, which doesn’t change the male lead to a female lead
I also haven’t seen any red flags so far that make every man look incompetent or anything like that. I also initially thought it was going to be more of an action-first no-nonsense show, but then they kind of pigeonholed the family and I’m generally a sucker for it, but I didn’t like what they did there.
We’ll see what the great Morgan Freeman brings to the show
The criticism is that the plot of what this particular group of operators do is very story-limiting and might kill it as it moves past the plot/villain of the season… needs to be more comprehensive so they can potentially make another more action-intensive fast-paced Homeland, otherwise it might become too episodic like BlacklistPS: So far Nicole Kidman’s part is incredibly small and uneventful, and could have been done by anyone else…
Its entertaining even without it being a History Channel show, which some commentators seem to prefer
But the show I’ve seen so far could stand on its own with Zaldana without any other A-Lister.TLDR Overall cautiously optimistic, but I like what I’ve seen so far, everything is incredibly cool and well done.