This a very good series. It has the right elements to the correct quantities to be a popular series for 2015. Most of them you have seen already in other series and movies, but in the end is all about how you mix them, and in that sense "Allegiance" is a success.
It's about a young analyst who started working for the CIA a few months ago but, as it revealed from the beginning, his mother (the daughter of KGB general) she was a spy for USSR until 6 years ago. Old demons are waking up and the young hero stands in the middle.
The first cliché is that our young analyst is a "savant" of somekind. A genius who didn't speak until he was 8 y.o. but he can read ...400 pages of material and remember all the details in one reading. (Maybe he is a cousin of ...Mike from Suits). Anyway...
The cast is very good and the acting sometimes superb! I have a particular sequence in mind where the great and underrated Scott Cohen (father of the analyst and husband of the mother/ex-spy) is chasing Hope Davis (the mother) who decided to turn herself in at the FBI headquarters. What a great and balanced acting...
Gavin Stenhouse is also a good cast in the main role and Margarita Levieva (playing his sister) adds the "sexy" in the mix...
And it's the Mix in the end on how good a show is perceived. We've seen all these elements before but so far "Allegiance" has the right amounts of each, to be fun and interesting...
It's about a young analyst who started working for the CIA a few months ago but, as it revealed from the beginning, his mother (the daughter of KGB general) she was a spy for USSR until 6 years ago. Old demons are waking up and the young hero stands in the middle.
The first cliché is that our young analyst is a "savant" of somekind. A genius who didn't speak until he was 8 y.o. but he can read ...400 pages of material and remember all the details in one reading. (Maybe he is a cousin of ...Mike from Suits). Anyway...
The cast is very good and the acting sometimes superb! I have a particular sequence in mind where the great and underrated Scott Cohen (father of the analyst and husband of the mother/ex-spy) is chasing Hope Davis (the mother) who decided to turn herself in at the FBI headquarters. What a great and balanced acting...
Gavin Stenhouse is also a good cast in the main role and Margarita Levieva (playing his sister) adds the "sexy" in the mix...
And it's the Mix in the end on how good a show is perceived. We've seen all these elements before but so far "Allegiance" has the right amounts of each, to be fun and interesting...