Or “Homeland Lite”, as I call it, Sundays on NBC. Is anybody else watching this? By the third episode it becomes fairly engaging. Basic plot: an American Special Forces team gets wiped out by a drone controlled by an evil American corporation that’s in cahoots with the government. It’s blamed on a local terrorist group. But one person survives and has information captured from a laptop that incriminates both the corporation and the government.
The story is about her journey to try to return to the US without being killed, but also about people back in the states who are on both sides of the equation: is she alive? Is she not? Who are the bad guys and who are on the Side of Right and Truth (SORT)?
We’re finding it pretty entertaining, if not quite as gritty as Homeland.
I discovered this show on Hulu just a couple of weeks ago. I was hooked from the very first episode.
Glad I decided to give it a shot, I was about this close to not giving two fucks about it.
I saw the first episode and plan to find the rest. But of course American Odyssey suffers from the sacred American “shows must be scheduled on Sunday nights if they’re to be seen as Important shows” syndrome. The show might have a better chance if they’d put it on another night. It’s got very little chance against the Sunday night competition.
There is Much Outrage on the IMDb board for this show, on the topic of the casting of a Brit (Anna Friel) instead of an American actress. In general the reaction to the show falls pretty cleanly along political lines (which is a shame.)
Okay, we’re enjoying this show quite a bit, but I really hate it when somebody does the following (or similar):
Bad guy jacks the slide on his 9 and goes out to get the girl, chasing her down alleyways. Catches up to her, jacks the slide again (:smack: ), and you can clearly see that said slide is locked to the rear (meaning the mag is empty). Hard to threaten somebody with an unloaded gun.
To be fair, that guy has a pretty menacing frowny-face. (And he could have resorted to harsh language, as well.)
A bit off-topic, but: it used to be even worse (than that dumb ‘keep jacking the slide to fill the audience with fear’ bit). I caught a couple of mid-60s, black-and-white episodes of The Saint recently, and everyone who uses a gun actually does the thing little kids used to do with toy guns: when “shooting a bullet” they jerk the gun forward. The motion is sort of like pitching a coin. Yelling “bang!” when making that circular jerking motion is optional.
Of course little kids today have seen so much realistic gunplay that they probably don’t do that, anymore.
