One of the joys of following a production that's junk (but fun junk) is reading articulate reviews that savage it. I've noted during meetings that I'm watching Amazon Prime's expensive, glossy "Citadel", a superspy thriller with strong SF genre elements -- and found it to be spy-plot madlibs, with every Bond-ish cliche you've ever seen piled into a blender set to "puree", but also good, clean, ultraviolent fun with a lot of fun international backdrops.
Just switch your brain off, to protect it from "Alias" season 3 industrial-grade levels of dumbness. Joshua Rivera at polygon.com weighed in (April 28th review, https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23700740/citadel-prime-video-review), and said review's a hoot. I'll just quote (here) one paragraph that may help folks find new things worth seeking out: No one has to do this. Do you know how many spy shows have premiered in the last month, alone? Go watch Rabbit Hole, where you can enjoy Kiefer Sutherland being an unrepentant jerk of a corporate spy, framed for murder. Or The Night Agent, which lacks star power but has a great hook (FBI agent has to watch a phone that never rings... until it does) and propulsive pacing once it gets going. Check out The Company You Keep, if you like your spies on the sexier side. Or wait a few days and watch FUBAR, which might not be good, but has Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that’s not nothing. Rabbit Hole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Hole_(TV_series)) ran 8 eps on Paramount+. The Night Agent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Agent) ran for season 1 (10 eps) on Netflix, and has been renewed. The Company You Keep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_You_Keep_(TV_series) ) ran for 1 season (10 eps) on ABC, and is based on an offbeat South Korean crime/comedy series. FUBAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBAR_(TV_series) ), an action/comedy/spy series (10 eps) will debut in two days on Netflix. All hail Der Gubernator! Note: None of these otherwise useful suggestions seems to have any SFF relevance, unlike the dumb but diverting, easy-on-the-eye, globetrotting "Citadel". _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
