Everything here hangs on a delicate balance. Obviously, one slip and the house of cards comes floating down. The problem sometimes is the whole orchestration, people coming and going, with or without real permission. Some deaths occur which erases a life from one side and creates complications on the other. What it ultimately comes down to are that the characters on both sides are human, with love, hate, strength, weakness. No matter how indoctrinated, keeping up the facade is very hard.
5 Reviews
Episode 106
bobcobb30130 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I saw the internet react to a huge "twist" at the end. Not as huge as I was hoping for, but this is a bit of a game changer here. Right now they seem to make a big deal of the crossing when they want to, and a minor deal of it when it is convenient for their storytelling, but this spy matter should be good. This show is solid, but I still am not blown away by it yet.
Gulenist not!..
hamidullahgenc17 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Can one, under this afternoon sun, ever miss the daughter one doesn't have;
or feel guilty over a grave sin one has not commited; or just kiss the odds
of never having that "special" life?..
We've all got to breathe a sigh of... relief?..
Let's get to the "twin-sized" story of the Earth's soft belly. In Berlin.
A portal with a diplomatic coverage.
One side works out environmental "wronging" of ours, while the other gets better at not having a flue outbreak?..
What is most sensible is that we should name the sides.
The one with our simple, unversed, well-mannered Howard Silk is C-1, from now on (Counterpart-1? Or short for Silk-1?), and the other is C-2.
Anyone who has a problem with this profiling can cast a voodoo on me. (I am not crazy, mr. Birdman. Not quite mein tempo...)
Let's review the main cast.
Ms. Sara Serraiocco is a good choice for a character so vulnerable and vicious (Baldwin).
Ms. Olivia Williams puts that British style of high cabaling into use beautifully. Convincingly sad, she is.
Mr. Harry Lloyd plays his part, but rather jejunely, is a sentence one utters wrongfully until the 6th episode which reveals the baleful play his wife lays in the C-1 in.
Oh, ms. Nazanin Boniadi!
One may think that it is far-fetched in the real world, confining it to the screenplay. But... as a Turk of Turkey, I'd personally attest to the secret operational events close to the ones in the series or even weightier ones that had happened in Turkey during the last 5 decades under the instructions of the ringleader of the Gulenist Movement, Fethullah Gülen.
Ali Yazici, the millitary assistant to the President of Turkey was in fact a Gulenist / Fetoist and he continually leaked information up until the moment of the military coup d'état on July 15th 2016 when an assassination squad was on their way to capture (or kill) Erdogan based on his guidance.
The likes of you are everywhere, ms. Clare!..
The intro spins in our heads, and we try to figure out what'll happen next...
To be continued (with the acting of J.K. Simmons and the plot) ...
We've all got to breathe a sigh of... relief?..
Let's get to the "twin-sized" story of the Earth's soft belly. In Berlin.
A portal with a diplomatic coverage.
One side works out environmental "wronging" of ours, while the other gets better at not having a flue outbreak?..
What is most sensible is that we should name the sides.
The one with our simple, unversed, well-mannered Howard Silk is C-1, from now on (Counterpart-1? Or short for Silk-1?), and the other is C-2.
Anyone who has a problem with this profiling can cast a voodoo on me. (I am not crazy, mr. Birdman. Not quite mein tempo...)
Let's review the main cast.
Ms. Sara Serraiocco is a good choice for a character so vulnerable and vicious (Baldwin).
Ms. Olivia Williams puts that British style of high cabaling into use beautifully. Convincingly sad, she is.
Mr. Harry Lloyd plays his part, but rather jejunely, is a sentence one utters wrongfully until the 6th episode which reveals the baleful play his wife lays in the C-1 in.
Oh, ms. Nazanin Boniadi!
One may think that it is far-fetched in the real world, confining it to the screenplay. But... as a Turk of Turkey, I'd personally attest to the secret operational events close to the ones in the series or even weightier ones that had happened in Turkey during the last 5 decades under the instructions of the ringleader of the Gulenist Movement, Fethullah Gülen.
Ali Yazici, the millitary assistant to the President of Turkey was in fact a Gulenist / Fetoist and he continually leaked information up until the moment of the military coup d'état on July 15th 2016 when an assassination squad was on their way to capture (or kill) Erdogan based on his guidance.
The likes of you are everywhere, ms. Clare!..
The intro spins in our heads, and we try to figure out what'll happen next...
To be continued (with the acting of J.K. Simmons and the plot) ...
Classic Spy Thriller
tlvx27 February 2018
Whoa! Episode 6 was a quintessential reminder of why I just love spy thrillers. The classic spy reveal. Now we get into the meat and potatoes. Here we go. Even if the show somehow doesn't manage to improve, beyond this point, it won't matter; because this mid-season climax was brilliant.
J.K. Simmons has an incredible ability to play two different characters, down to the minute posturing of each character. It's amazing how there's little doubt beyond the first three words out of his mouth, which character he's playing, at a given time... despite the fact that sometimes they share the exact same attire.
From the writing, to the acting, to the directing, to the editing... this show is a flat out total production clinic.
J.K. Simmons has an incredible ability to play two different characters, down to the minute posturing of each character. It's amazing how there's little doubt beyond the first three words out of his mouth, which character he's playing, at a given time... despite the fact that sometimes they share the exact same attire.
From the writing, to the acting, to the directing, to the editing... this show is a flat out total production clinic.
If you loved him, truly, you have to love the lie.
dreamingescapist20 July 2019
'Act Like You've Been Here Before', the big climax, the first big reveal of the first season. Both Howards continue their investigations, and they are starting to get somewhere. But it is Aldrich, who makes some groundbreaking discovery under the orders of Quayle. Or does he?
The sixth episode of the season one is the classical slow-burning spy thriller where little by little the secrets are revealed taking us closer to the truth. After the magnificent pilot episode, 'Act Like You've Been Here Before' is the second truly great episode of the season one, in the sense of thrills and story development. It can only get better from here on.
I like how the quote of Howard (If you loved him, truly, you have to love the lie. - He says that to the wife of Heinrich) foreshadows the upcoming events. Also, we now start to understand why the Prime Howard is kind of jerk to everyone.
The sixth episode of the season one is the classical slow-burning spy thriller where little by little the secrets are revealed taking us closer to the truth. After the magnificent pilot episode, 'Act Like You've Been Here Before' is the second truly great episode of the season one, in the sense of thrills and story development. It can only get better from here on.
I like how the quote of Howard (If you loved him, truly, you have to love the lie. - He says that to the wife of Heinrich) foreshadows the upcoming events. Also, we now start to understand why the Prime Howard is kind of jerk to everyone.
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