The original post: /r/television by /u/Faithless195 on 2025-02-28 00:27:32.
So the only reason I ended up watching this show was a post from yesterday, saying that the seventh episode was some of the best TV out there. I saw a fair few more people mention the same than I expected from a show I’d heard nothing about, and watched the current seven episodes out since then.
From the get go…it’s a surprisingly good political thriller. I’m normally not the kind to enjoy these, but there’s just enough of a unique angle to get me interested in it. It starts a wee bit slow, but ramps up pretty quickly in the 5th and 6th episodes.
The seventh episode is just a solid hour of constantly rising tension. We’ve seen events like this play out in movies before, and even some TV series, but hooooly shit, this show somehow made this stuff waaaaay more terrifying than I ever expected.
I won’t go out there and say it’s the best show ever, but that one episode definitely deserved the praise, and was some excellent pay off after six episodes of build up. That said…James Marsden absolutely carries this show. The other leads are pretty good, but the dude is just on a whole other level. Every scene he is in is completely elevated by his presence. And that shit shines in the seventh episode.