Now we look at episodes 3 and 4. IMO. It's still not working as a show. But episode 3 should have replaced episode 2. I actually see them as a couple in episode 3. They bond, they do things together. I get it. I still don't think they have the chemistry of other versions of this story but it's something. It was a really good episode.
Episode 4 represents everything I had about this show. Like what on earth am I watching? Like you guys are spies right? It feels like they twisted their blasé take on man women spy nonsense and made it even more blasé. Because what I'm seeing here is the spy gig economy. Da heck am I supposed to take from this "literally everyone named john smith is a spy" nonsense. I mean part of being a spy is keeping it a secret and that tension of keeping a secret is one of the biggest problems i have with this show. There's literally no secret keeping. They lie about what they do like they're onlyfans stars. They lie about how they met like they met on Tinder. There's no intrigue do it. No guile. It's all practically white lies. Episode 4 took that up even farther. Everyone is flashing the "Org" credit card? Why does the org have such an easily identifiable credit card in the first place? Don't you know you're supplying spies? When Other John showed up I thought maybe this would be a test from the org to see if they're keeping their spy lie a secret properly. When Jane mentioned how much John loves his mom I thought maybe she's going to accidentally reveal that John is still in contact with his mom and that would be the tension with them having to kill the others so it doesn't get back to the company.
Something somewhere to build up some plot and tension. But nah. Everything in this show is just so... casual. Even the blood baths and the shootouts are so casual. I didn't have high expectations for this show but I so very much was hoping to be proven wrong. But even looking at this as it's own show completely unrelated to any previous franchise. This is not the spy romance I would have been interested in and honestly I'm putting it down the writing. I have a handful of problems with the show but the writing is the anchor. The rest I might be able to work around but this just isn't (to use the vernacular of the youth dem) hitting.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2024-02-05T05:19:30Z
Now we look at episodes 3 and 4. IMO. It's still not working as a show. But episode 3 should have replaced episode 2. I actually see them as a couple in episode 3. They bond, they do things together. I get it. I still don't think they have the chemistry of other versions of this story but it's something. It was a really good episode.
Episode 4 represents everything I had about this show. Like what on earth am I watching? Like you guys are spies right? It feels like they twisted their blasé take on man women spy nonsense and made it even more blasé. Because what I'm seeing here is the spy gig economy. Da heck am I supposed to take from this "literally everyone named john smith is a spy" nonsense. I mean part of being a spy is keeping it a secret and that tension of keeping a secret is one of the biggest problems i have with this show. There's literally no secret keeping. They lie about what they do like they're onlyfans stars. They lie about how they met like they met on Tinder. There's no intrigue do it. No guile. It's all practically white lies. Episode 4 took that up even farther. Everyone is flashing the "Org" credit card? Why does the org have such an easily identifiable credit card in the first place? Don't you know you're supplying spies? When Other John showed up I thought maybe this would be a test from the org to see if they're keeping their spy lie a secret properly. When Jane mentioned how much John loves his mom I thought maybe she's going to accidentally reveal that John is still in contact with his mom and that would be the tension with them having to kill the others so it doesn't get back to the company.
Something somewhere to build up some plot and tension. But nah. Everything in this show is just so... casual. Even the blood baths and the shootouts are so casual. I didn't have high expectations for this show but I so very much was hoping to be proven wrong. But even looking at this as it's own show completely unrelated to any previous franchise. This is not the spy romance I would have been interested in and honestly I'm putting it down the writing. I have a handful of problems with the show but the writing is the anchor. The rest I might be able to work around but this just isn't (to use the vernacular of the youth dem) hitting.