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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf | Teaser | August 27

Chris Pratt personally ensured Terminal List S1 was awesome, so I wonder if this will be up to the same standard. Loved S1 though so definitely on board.
 
I got recommended The Terminal List by a member on Gaf and was very pleasantly surprised by it. I didn't think Pratt had it in him. It's the show that made me think he could be Gunn's next Batman.
 
Kitsch was awesome in American Primeval so I have high hopes for this one. Not sure I care all that much for Ben Edwards as a character versus all the other ones they could be profiling from the James Reece-verse but Carr rarely disappoints.

This feels like a more manly version of Lioness, hope it ups the gun game for TV as well. No CG muzzle flashes or blood, I want blanks galore and karo syrup by the buckets!
 
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Damnit! They're doing the slow release bullshit. I was hoping to get all of the episodes at once.

I guess I'll check back in October.
 
Not nearly as thrilling and exciting as The Terminal List, but it might get better. I like the Gambit actor.
 
Yeah, the dialogue feels very forced and it doesn't have as intense of fights. But I'm assuming this was a lesser budget thing they could put out between TTL seasons, so it's ok.

For me though the greatest sin is that weird curly hair mullet thing Taylor as going on. Who approved that hair cut??
 
The third episode was great.
Exactly what i expect from this kind of thriller

ps. That hot gal from Fauda! 🤌
 
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Hah hah hah, having Ray Porter (narrator for all the books) as a voice on the phone is a fun easter egg. Wonder where Carr's death scene will be :P
 
Damn, using Tool over a "Gear up for bear" montage has been the BEST use of an expensive song I've seen in years. Alien:Earth and Peacemaker, take notes for how to use music to enhance, not distract.

And damn, how many Sig arms product endorsement and phone game name drops are we gonna get :P
 
Was not impressed with episode 1. The writing was pretty trash.
I'd say give it another ep or 2. There is a big tonal/setting shift after ep1. It's almost Black Ops style, with them all in that old mansion, planning missions. So much so I gotta think the writers had just played it :P
 
I'd say give it another ep or 2. There is a big tonal/setting shift after ep1. It's almost Black Ops style, with them all in that old mansion, planning missions. So much so I gotta think the writers had just played it :P
I will, I enjoyed the first series a bunch so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
 
I've watched 2 or 3 episodes, so far it's fine. Chris Pratt isn't in it a ton though, this appears very much to be Taylor Kitsch's season, where in The Terminal List he was the side guy. This is his story this time around.
 
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They are also setting up Raife Hastings, who should be a big player in later seasons of TTL, and I'm assuming Landry and Mo in TTL season 2.

I think they are also replacing others for more dramatic impact Eliza will sub out for Aliya, for example.

These are all book spoilers, nothing critical but hidden in case you don't want to know who is likely to live in Dark Wolf. (i.e that perky boobed tech girl is toast :P)
 
I went back and rewatched ep1 after ep2 and it holds up a lot better when you can see where it is going and the tracks it's laying down a bit better.

Always a struggle with these middle east terrorist shows (same with russian bratva stuff, TBH) with all these names and somewhat similar looking dour bearded guys to keep them all separate. Throw in a lot of white military looking dudes and characters blend a lot.
 
I gotta say, with Lioness, Seal Team, and and now Ep4, big long battles with suppressed weapons just doesn't have the punch of rolling thunder. One place where technical/tactical accuracy could maybe give way to audience enjoyment :P

Think I saw Jack Carr getting smoked in the lead car as well :P
 
I gotta say, with Lioness, Seal Team, and and now Ep4, big long battles with suppressed weapons just doesn't have the punch of rolling thunder. One place where technical/tactical accuracy could maybe give way to audience enjoyment :P
Taylor Kitsch shooting dozens and dozens of shots, single fire from an MP5K looked so ridiculous like some amateur backyard movie made with Airsoft weapons. And it's so weird considering the team were just seen unloading boxes full of modern gear and somehow this 50 year old relic ends up being used.

But for the rest it's pretty cool.
 
Taylor Kitsch shooting dozens and dozens of shots, single fire from an MP5K looked so ridiculous like some amateur backyard movie made with Airsoft weapons. And it's so weird considering the team were just seen unloading boxes full of modern gear and somehow this 50 year old relic ends up being used.

But for the rest it's pretty cool.
I've shot a full auto MP5K before, it definitely works better as a giant single fire pistol than it does as a full auto submachine gun. They had SO MANY guys on them though, like 3-4 on the bridge directly over head, no way they should have survived. But it was a fun scene and the ending....damn shoulda seen that coming :P

Speaking of guns, just watched A Working Man with statham and in the end he is running around, INSIDE A HOUSE, with a full length M14 with a giant thermal scope. WTF approved that? He uses the scope once to spot a guy outside, but kills him with a suppressed pistol. Then he has this incredibly awkward fight sequence through the house with that boat oar of a rifle. At least give him a SOCOM with a dot sight!

Still, nice to see the old girl get some love. Not many films use the M-14 and it's one of my favorite battle rifles.
 
Well, that episode has raised the yearly murder count of Switzerland (around 50) by a lot. Imagine being on duty that day with the local forensics team and having to deal with dozens of bodies and hundreds of bullets fired.
This is like the 10th show/movie where you have these massive shootours in busy European cities and depending on the budget it ends with the cops joining the fight and all getting killed to leave only the hero left standing or, for lower budget shows, the sirens coming in at the end of the fight.
 
Well, that episode has raised the yearly murder count of Switzerland (around 50) by a lot. Imagine being on duty that day with the local forensics team and having to deal with dozens of bodies and hundreds of bullets fired.
This is like the 10th show/movie where you have these massive shootours in busy European cities and depending on the budget it ends with the cops joining the fight and all getting killed to leave only the hero left standing or, for lower budget shows, the sirens coming in at the end of the fight.
No kidding. That netflix movie The Grey Man had a FULL ON BATTLE in some european town square with hordes of cops getting mowed down, insane. Bond has done it as well.

That stuff would be the #1 crime event OF THE DECADE in europe, though sadly just a wednesday night here in the wild States.
 
Show finishes strong. I don't think it quite sticks the landing with respect to Ben's conversion to his actions in The Terminal List, I'm assuming they left some wiggle room for a season 2.

Between this show and TTL, that's about 95% of the testosterone in Amazon Prime studios, especially since Reacher has wussed out. Only Taylor Sheridan is really speaking to this audience on a consistent basis.
 
Liked it quite a bit. It's not "peak cinema" but its creates characters worth caring about, has some entertaining action sequences and is squarely aimed at a male audience.
Didn't outstay its welcome either.
 
It was pretty good, I think I liked it more than Terminal List. Hopefully a season 2 is confirmed at some point.
 
I enjoyed it, and a little more than Terminal List, which I thought was good but somewhat overrated simply due to the lack of other content aimed at a male audience. Terminal List felt kinda video-gamey in its narrative structure.

Terminal List S1 spoilers: I think it's pretty much impossible to ever reconcile this character with the end of Terminal List (or indeed to reconcile this character throughout Terminal List S1 with the end of that season). Just pretend that ending never happened imo.

Vague Dark Wolf spoilers: This season breaks at least two major rules of woke era storytelling, which I thought was noteworthy.
 
Didn't really stick the landing. In fact, it made me even more confused to how he sells his SEAL buddies out in Terminal List. The same guys that bailed him out, off the record, despite his bullshit lone wolf escapades.

I get it, red tape, can't get bad guy, world all wrong. He's not very interesting.
 
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Vague Dark Wolf spoilers: This season breaks at least two major rules of woke era storytelling, which I thought was noteworthy.
Which 2? Landry having a bit of a redemption arc after getting handsy with the spicy Israeli girl or the bad guys being PoC?
 
In fact, it made me even more confused to how he sells his SEAL buddies out in Terminal List.

There is still an opportunity if they do another season, but it's hard to see how they could possibly go about it. If they only had to arc the DW character to the 'end of TL' character that would be one thing, but for the first 95% of TL he is essentially the same character as in DW.

Which 2? Landry having a bit of a redemption arc after getting handsy with the spicy Israeli girl or the bad guys being PoC?
You got the exact two I was thinking of
 
You got the exact two I was thinking of
Yeah, if you read the books then most of the tension goes out of Dark Wolf, but it is laying good ground for those later seasons. I'm glad Jack Carr is getting to play around with all these different mediums, I've hope he can use this for the historical stuff he is doing as well.
 
Last two years have been terminal list, jack reacher and jack ryan, I'm rooting for these military type shows but they're average at best.
 
That last season of Jack Ryan was pure garbage. I have enjoyed Reacher. I still need to watch the latest season of The Terminal List. I was surprised how much I liked the 1st series.
 
that was pretty dope, some brutal stuff in some episodes like the airplane scene.
Though I cringe every time these kinds of shows/movies bring in a polygraph and treat it as actual real serious business, takes me out of it completely 🙄
 
that was pretty dope, some brutal stuff in some episodes like the airplane scene.
Though I cringe every time these kinds of shows/movies bring in a polygraph and treat it as actual real serious business, takes me out of it completely 🙄
Apparently the CIA still does it (or did, ~2005) 'cause Jack Carr had to sit for one when he worked for the CIA.
 
WTF happened to episode 3? This is Walker Texas Ranger where Walker and Trevette are replaced with characters nobody cares about. Completely illogical!

Edit: Just finished e4. I'm out. Amazon f*cked up another show.
 
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WTF happened to episode 3? This is Walker Texas Ranger where Walker and Trevette are replaced with characters nobody cares about. Completely illogical!

Edit: Just finished e4. I'm out. Amazon f*cked up another show.
If that whole subway chase sequence didn't sell you, nothing else is gonna.
 
That was the best scene in either e3 or e4 and it lasted like 90 seconds.
Like I said, of that whole chase sequence didnt do it for you, nothing else in the show will. There are multiple other chases, running gun battles, lots of torture, some brutal hand to hand, but IMHO that subway scene (the chase up to and after it included) was the best of the show, very 70s LeCarre vibe there versus more COD style gunfights.

If the CIA team doesnt interest you, that's the rest of the show.
 
I watched the whole season, but it lost the thread at some point. It was ok, started good, but fell apart for me by the end.
 
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