I didn't realize CIA spy movies were still a thing. Anyone still thinks CIA does anything but torture, drug trade and betrayal of everyone and everything. But okay, maybe there are still some people who want to see some good old saving America. To each his own.
But how it's done is absolutely horrendous in its own way. Every repetitive cliche TV-show makers ever had is in this show. The dialogue at the Panama beach bar AND the beach bar itself. "You look like you need company. - (stretches hand) Daniel. - Katherine. - You're not really Katherine..." and so on. And of course the piece of the news that the character needs to see starts EXACTLY when the TV remote button is pressed. MAGIC. And the code word for a phone conversation is the first line of a poem and the answer is the second line. And it goes on like that until yet another epic dialogue. "I heard you learned German the proper way. You grew up here". And then the German-learner in question says "Frankfurter Wurstchen Kirschtorte" (a name of the sausage... of course) with the WORST American accent I ever heard the German language spoken with. I don't think even an American will recognize this as "perfect German".
All-in-all, the usual patriotic BS wrapped in yet another pseudo-historic candy wrap "made with pride" in the "good old US of A". But alas, I don't have anything better to binge at this point.
But how it's done is absolutely horrendous in its own way. Every repetitive cliche TV-show makers ever had is in this show. The dialogue at the Panama beach bar AND the beach bar itself. "You look like you need company. - (stretches hand) Daniel. - Katherine. - You're not really Katherine..." and so on. And of course the piece of the news that the character needs to see starts EXACTLY when the TV remote button is pressed. MAGIC. And the code word for a phone conversation is the first line of a poem and the answer is the second line. And it goes on like that until yet another epic dialogue. "I heard you learned German the proper way. You grew up here". And then the German-learner in question says "Frankfurter Wurstchen Kirschtorte" (a name of the sausage... of course) with the WORST American accent I ever heard the German language spoken with. I don't think even an American will recognize this as "perfect German".
All-in-all, the usual patriotic BS wrapped in yet another pseudo-historic candy wrap "made with pride" in the "good old US of A". But alas, I don't have anything better to binge at this point.
