The Terminal List (2022-2026)

Series to my heart, really powerful in many areas, great story, good cast, audiovisual top Great detective work and there is also good speed in it. A month of Prime has still been taken (free) and eating some cool series

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Great entertaining series. Typically American in the sense that the single individual must get the job done through his superior (in this case military) martial art. Not too much fuss and a good addition is the few honest journalists they managed to find somewhere on earth. The action is well put together, quite different with many productions, but this was originally written by an ex-military. And the mistrust in Uncle Sam and his seedy, corrupt deals is clearly showing.

Critics view it as a disgustingly abject reactionary revenge fantasy involving someone taking the law into their own hands. They might be better off watching a fantasy series that solves every problem with talking.

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The Terminal List is such a thriller where the action scenes are taken as the starting point for the scenario. A connecting story was then sought. That usually doesn't work out well. Not here either. Hero of service is James Reece (Chris Pratt). And according to the typical American example: military, decorated, patriot, with personal tragedy and fighting a conspiracy. And so, with a list in his hand, he wants revenge! No wonder I was thinking about Shooter. Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer, Training Day) is executive producer on both series.

The action scenes are good. However, the plot is as thin as paper and only a peg for the action. Besides a high degree of predictability, the dialogues are the biggest problem; eloquent, soporific and full of platitudes. Including open doors like 'you're like family to us'. When Chris Pratt also acts as if he is made of cardboard (almost all characters, by the way) and is put on soothing medication, this quickly becomes a snoozefest.

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