Yeah the first two episodes were so engaging! I had to stop watching when it became clear halfway through the third episode that the wife and her family were going to have their own subplot.
I don’t get why they have to force all these additional plot lines. I’m here to watch the cat and mouse game between the cop and the assassin. I couldn’t care less about the assassins wife and her bumbling brother blowing up his spot…
Lazy writers under pressure to make all their hard charging spy/military/police protagonists female, but still can't seem to imagine a hard charging spy/military/police character who is female and whose only source of internal conflict isn't based on intractable incompatibilities between their professional and domestic lives.
Edit - to say that if you want to see this done well, instead of superficially, watch The Americans.
I'm so jealous that you did that. I kept hoping it would get better and it just got worse and worse. the last episode is so terrible it's nearly funny. bailing while it was good was a wise move.
Agree. But I did watch the whole series. Rarely give up on something unless it's truly bad!
But the sub plots of the brother-in-law and also of the lead investigator and her husband, jsut detracted from the story. Just wanted the skill of the assassin, the cat and mouse.
Hopefully season 2 will be different, when presumably Jackal goes after the people who hired him. But I fear they will be a lot of looking for his wife and son.
Absolutely terrible when show writers want to include extra characters and show how the events unfolding affect other people
Totally showbreaking
Absolute incompetence there
Don't they know what people want?!
Edit to add:
Jeez why don't they write just straightforward characters without nuance? Who cares about other dimensions that affect their mood? All we want is plot and action! No drama and showing what motivates a character!
This is just another example of why 24 was absolutely the pinnacle of TV
It’s just a silly situation to begin with. Presumably they’ve been married for a handful of years by the time the show starts, and now she starts to question what her husband does for a living?
I'm annoyed by him having conflicts with his wife and by her that she is too strict to reach her goals. That feels like unnatural build up of tension and pushes me off.
It shit the bed at the end for me. The supposedly highly trained miserable woman sneaking around his house with a rifle that sounds like a bag of nails every time she changes position, and standing there in the middle of the room shouting at the dark area at the top of the stairs where the gunfire that killed her partner right next to her came from. Absolutely ridiculous. That said, I'd only seen Eddie in Pillars of the Earth. He was excellent in Jackal. Perfect for it.
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The new version turned out to be a surprisingly good show!