The Terminal List

This show is one of the best thrillers of the 21st century. It has compelling character development, great twists and does a chillingly powerful job of reflecting the protagonist's journey through the mood of its scenery. There's also a lot of thoughtful applicability here with subjects such as a soldiers, citizens, or corporations relationships to each other and the state, but with little to none of the heavy hand of allegory so common in modern productions. It's an all around enjoyable series.

Middling series. Will appeal to those with conspiracy, revenge, and military fantasies. Action was good, but between the action some scenes played out as cringey macho tough guy tropes. Main character has plot armor and is a superhuman one man army. Enjoyable but by no means groundbreaking.

Just a fairly average show that hits enough of the right notes to be watchable. Seems like both the critics and audience are exaggerating how good or bad they think this is. Everything has to be viewed through the lens of "woke vs anti-woke" nowadays and people are losing any sense of nuance because of this perceived culture war. This show had an interesting premise and there are definitely many entertaining scenes, but the story and dialogue felt overly long and dragged out. This easily could've been a much tighter 4 part mini-series. Reacher was a much better show if you want a solid revenge tale.

The premise: take everything that makes Chris Pratt beloved, remove it from Chris Pratt, and give him a bag of pompous tropes and a headache. The result: The Terminal List The dumb writing makes everyone in the show dumb and makes you dumber for watching it. What a wasted opportunity. Oh: the whole thing is about nootropic drugs, and they mispronounce "nootropics" every time they say it.

Don’t understand all the perfect scores. Perhaps the reviews are paid. Characters are such caricatures and Pratts acting is a poor fit for the role. Amazon did much better with Jack Ryan, just watch the first few episodes and you’ll see. The deeper you get into the show the more stereotypical it gets.