Oh! This is a comedy? The Modern Warfare in media res made me think otherwise. (The Recruit, e1).
Literally what even is happening here? Am I too dumb to understand television?
I mean, why are they concerned with a very uninteresting woman in prison?
Spies all the way down.
Jargon's great for world-building and all but this a very large, very abrupt bucket for an opening ten minutes.
Definitely a homefill location. Noscars everywhere.
Not only can we dump the lead's entire backstory in a feverish rant by drastically changing tone into bloody torture -- free finger!
I have to focus so much on what's happening here that I don't have time for semi-smarmy quips.
Is it cartoony or idealistic the punishment he keeps taking for the company?
How did the CIA even hire him? He's like a black lab in a suit. A little handsome but his head's too big for his body and he's only got three mosquitos bumping around in his brain cavity.
Which helps sell the paragraphs of exposition, honestly.
Hoped this was more than a Vincent Chase spy series for the USA network, but here we are.
Oh now the labrador retriever is goin' on a fuckin' *mission*. What a dingus.