I'm watching the second season of The Night Agent, after I kinda enjoyed the first season. I'm about halfway through. It's pretty clear that they didn't really have a good story for the second season. Everything feels very forced.
Well that sucks. I, too, enjoyed the first season, and was looking forward to the second. I guess I'll start into it anyway, but THANKS FOR RUINING IT FOR ME. Geesh.
Super wooden acting performances, cliched setups, kinda meh storyline, action sequences aren't very exciting. Obviously it's possible that the storyline can turn itself around since there are 4 episodes left. But the first season felt like a bit of a hidden gem and this one feels like what you get with a hidden gem that they tried to glue another season onto without a real plan.
That's too bad. You missed one of the best scenes. You know how Peter and his partner get their cover blown and get chased by a gang of bad guys who are shooting at them, trying to kill them? And how Peter shoots one of the dudes who is shooting at him? Much later in the series there's a big Dramatic Scene where one of the gang asks Peter if he "even knew [the dead guy's] name" and then guilt trips him about how the guy had loving friends and family who all went to his funeral. This was not a throwaway moment, it was a whole scene where just the two of them are talking. I legitimately watched the scene and filed it away in my brain because I thought, "this can't be real, there's no way they tried to make the random guy from 7 episodes ago who you never met and was trying to murder foreign agents into a sympathetic character. This is a set up for something later." Nope. Never mentioned again. The utterly bizarre forced Dramatic Moments got increasingly weird and asinine as the series went on.
Oh No! I'll have to go back and look for that scene! Or not. Yeah. When I want to watch that kind of shitty writing, I watch something over the top and intentional... like that old series Scorpion. It was like if math geniuses that were beat up in school were crossed with Seal Team and MacGyver. I watched every episode because it was so stupid and over the top. "We can stop the missiles being shot at the space shuttle with a weather balloon!" But when they try and be serious about it, it's just a failure. Every show does not have to be perfectly written, but there is a barrier to entry when they're trying to be taken seriously.
I remember this scene, and waited to see what the significance of that obscure character was going to be, in a clever twist of some sort. Nope. Nothing. The Sopranos, while a much better show, had a bunch of story threads and scenes that ultimately went nowhere, the brief appearance of middle eastern terrorists being the most notorious.
She’s a great character. I’d prefer to see just the 2 of them working through stuff. Not the whole team. Last season was super cringey with the “special investigators” bullshit.
Just finished the first 3 episodes of Reacher... yeah, it's awesome. It's based on one the best books in the series (in my opinion), and they've done a great job setting it all up so far. Thursday can't come soon enough.
Severance - I have a pretty good imagination but I never imagined I’d see a romance between John Tutturo and Christoper Walken. I’m six episodes in and still not sure I like it.