Like the digusting and culturally pointless little pig I am, I watch shit like this. I could give an explanation for why or justify it as some ethnographic study of early 21st century MilBro lit. but, really, i just like action sequences mixed with intrigue.
anyway, we all know this is some bottom of the barrel bullshit going in. i watched the first ep KNOWING it was going to be a turd. and it was somehow beneath my expectations.
forget the fantastical geopolitical world the production team paints as the context for their 100% unrealistic heroes to inhabit as they gruffly, but knowingly chide and affirm each other in their cargo pants, henleys, and unmarked ball caps. just the basic writing for dialogue is fucking torture, and not even the stupid politics or the exposition.
like, if you took a shot every time somebody calls somebody else “brother” you would be dead in 10 minutes. it feels completely shoehorned. like an exec fed the scrip into an LLM and prompted it to “say brother 20x more”.
so the story is nonsense, the dialogue is torture, the action sequences are somehow not interesting despite gunfire and explosions. legit all it has are some appealing establishing shots in visually interesting locales. literally, there are acreensavers i would rather watch than this, and they probably cost like 0.05% to produce.
anyway, it sucks, lmao.
totally. i think there’s a captive audience effect going on, because if you have the service and pay for it, might as well watch the shit because you’ve already paid.
like if a nearby theater or rental place offered you unlimited watches for a subscription, you’re gonna watch tons of junk.
this is especially true in amazons case where even the FTC has said they made canceling prime too difficult and lied to people up front so they’re getting a 1.5 BILLION dollar fine.
it is weird though how they drop big bucks on exotic locales and movie stars, but are apparently having a $12 LLM generate the worst scripts ever farted out.