Crossing a "Rubicon"

[jeregenest]

The Internet has failed me (once again) by waiting until AMC's Rubicon was almost over to tell me about it. This show just may end up being the best espionage show since The Sandbaggers. It depends on what the last two episodes bring. Right now its all the wasted promise of the first season of MI5 cubed. And its pretty much all about analysts. I'm in love.

And yes peaseblossom and I just spent last night catchiong up with all 11 episodes.

Arliss Howard as Kale, Michael Cristofer as Truxton Spangler, and Will from Glee (not really but it would be a funny mashup). Add Miranda Richardson and some very strong actors and this is an amazing series. The pacing makes me swoon, its so deliberate and well thought out.

This had better end well!

Comments

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

I swear to god, this morning as I was grabbing some tv shows off of *cough* I was thinking "I wonder if Jere is liking Rubicon."

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I'm so in love. The problem about watching shows after the fact is that I have to wait till tomorrow to watch tonight's episode. And then a whole week until the season finale.

I can't decide if I want a second season or not. Depends on the next two episodes. It may not need one its so very well put together and a sequel might just be disappointing.

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

It's one of those distressingly post-Bochco shows that very much benefits from seeing a whole slew of its episodes in a row. Watching the first four or five episodes at the rate of one a week felt glacial.

But things got better for us once we (and the show?) figured out that, as the only character attempting to take action, Kale was actually the protagonist and Will was just furniture for Kale.