Reviews

Love this! I'm on episode 2 and think it's kind of fascinating. An invisible organization picks B teamers to fulfill dangerous missions posing and living as a married couple. What would it be like if you were one of those misfits?

And as killers, how would two people relate to one another having to spend many hours together while getting to know each other? During missions and between them. They are figuring out how to be operatives. They aren't overskilled double Os. They are bumping up against the same relationship tropes we all have but they are warped by the context.

And is that what the organization is doing? Are they experimenting this way on purpose or have they found a way to get a set of expendable agents?

A bit of a disjointed, tropey mess, id'nt? No "cinema" just filmed the actors moving around and talking. Looked more like an '80s made for tv movie than a modern telling of a being fighting his own true nature. Something made me feel like the sets and costumes and so-so effects and yes, Lovejoy, were obscuring any passion or depth the actors could bring to the screen. Harbour's Hellboy was missing the character, playfulness, love and charm we got from the first series. Lack of development of sidekicks and interesting interactions. Fast forwarded the last 30 minutes (mostly fighting) and wasn't sad about that.

I like GC and will try any movie she's in. This one combines some of my favorite genres: action, apocalypse/dystopia, revenge. It's nice to see a female action hero like her that can fight and also resembles a real human woman that can take on a 6'-5" man and throw him across a room but still look beautiful doing that. I think the plot was thin, and some of the costuming was distracting. But generally an interesting take on the loner revenge western and a good vehicle for Carano's action star skills.

The advertising for this was kind of lame - featured some of the schmaltzier moments sandwiched in between those "spectrum originals" voice over bumpers that sound like, well, bad cable ads. I ended up trying one episode because I like the stars - and that led to two more and then over a couple weeks watched all season 1. High caliber actresses, fun supporting cast, interesting enough story, splashy action, some silly dialogue, overly fast resolutions and hacky flashbacks but overall a solid seven of an extended action flick. Shades of lethal weapon, a little too parallel to bad boys (rich cop / family cop) but I appreciated the longer arc of character development and connection between the two leads they could do with multiple episodes as compared to a 2 hour movie. Looked up renewal and see a second season coming. I will watch it!

Jurassic Park but with vampires - and MPG looking like Chris Pratt's brother too. "We experimented to make something good but it tuned bad and now they might get out and destroy the whole world." Should we play god? Good of the one v good of the many. Didn't know about the books but if they are a better version of this show like everyone says, I'll probably read them. I am sort of bummed that it's vampires. Don't you feel like it's overdone? I do like a good apocalypse tale though.

Like a ghost-written Cussler novel read on a lazy sunday afternoon. No really high expectations, just the characters I'm familiar with, doing their thing.

No surprises - this leads to that, that leads to this, etc. A few good moments of tension but not enough to be intriguing. Missing the mystery. But it kept my attention. Maybe just to see more of Kraz's eight-pack abs and ridiculous pecs.

It seemed to want to let you decide the where the line is drawn along with Jack. He's learning the line is very blurry. I'd cite examples, but am trying a no-spoiler approach. Not sympathetic to terrorists. An 8 hour show needs more than one dimensional Die Hard villains so we have to know how the killer was formed.

I did find the drone dude's story completely unnecessary. And weird. And off-putting.

Jack is a man who sees the world in black and white and is facing the reality of all the shades of gray. Can he "save the world" without losing his soul? Can we play the good guy if we have to do bad things to have safety and peace? Is it OK to hurt a few people for the greater good? Can we act saintly in the world if we've trampled on other's freedom to get here? Clancy explored these questions by sending his man Jack out to save the world and seeing what happened. The show does the same.

The characters talk like they would in real life. Unlike an episode of CSI, they don't stop to explain to their colleagues what they all know is going on for the audience's sake. PNG'd is "persona non grata-ed" but you didn't have to know that to understand it was punishment. TFAD's acronym was written out in words on the door to the office and showed up in multiple episodes.