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By Sophia Doshi
This show had me absolutely hooked. While I am usually the type of person to show restraint late at night and go to bed instead of binge-watching a TV show, this show had me all turned around. I stupidly stayed up until 11pm one night and had to wake up at 6:30am for my internship the next morning. You can imagine how foggy my head was during that time. Yet... I don't regret it.
However, I won't judge you if you think this is 'just another FBI show'. I mean, it pretty much is. It's got the FBI agent with not enough clearance to understand the conspiracy going on in the White House, but a connection to someone super important that gives him clearance to do a little digging around. It also has a girl who was involuntarily dragged into this whole mess via murdered family members who needs to be protected by this low-level agent. Ah, an opportunity for romance? Perhaps, but you'll have to wait six episodes. Yeah, when I say it's slowburn, I mean slowburn. Oh, and I want to mention that this conspiracy is so tied in with the White House that literally no one can be trusted, people have been kidnapped, and people have to make and break alliances in the strangest of places.
Its personality comes from the acting of the characters. The main male and female protagonists, Peter Sutherland and Rose Larkin (played by Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan) are likable, understandable, and forgivable characters. They make the most out of a crazy situation that gets crazier in ten-minute increments, and if that isn't stressful enough, the antagonists are trying to kill them every 5 minutes. Turns out Basso and Buchanan are very good at acting stressed. Maybe it's not acting... kidding. To be fair, if I was being pursued by killers with an agenda at every twist and turn, I'd also be pretty stressed.
Newsflash: the tattoo sleeve that Peter has in the show? It's real. Gabriel Basso has an actual tattoo sleeve. If the kind eyes didn't seal the deal for me already, the tattoo sleeve sure did.
Image from Netflix
That aside, Peter Sutherland is the White Boy of the Month. Maybe I should start an entirely new page about my favorite monthly white boys, or maybe not. If you see it, then you'll know. Anyways, yeah, he's incredibly attractive, especially when he develops that protective instinct over Rose. It becomes very obvious that they'll eventually do the whole kissy-kissy thing. The good thing about the kissy-kissy thing is that the buildup to it doesn't overshadow any of the action or the weight that this conspiracy has on the government and the country. Their romance is a sub-subplot. As in, very light, pretty much irrelevant, and not distracting (though, I did cheer when they finally kissed).
The show is a solid 8.5/10. The only reason it's not a 9.5 or a 10 is that I don't like the way Rose shouts like a toddler when she's alarmed, and the pacing of the show sometimes is too slow and drags out a bit, especially in the scenes with the peeps back at the White House. Otherwise, it's a great show and I recommend that everybody watches it (even if you're an FBI-type-show hater).
Cover image from Hollywood Life
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