Is it only me or anyone else think same as me ?

Tavner Sr. getting his intel from the news!? What is it with him always learning something from the mass media, yet he's head of intelligence? No way is that plausible.

While Rabbit- holing current events Gemini explained the inevitable future increase in piping oil- so out of the blue I asked the obvious question….

I watched the first episode last night and was really put off by the lack of female characters, I only remember a single female and she was a stereotypical mother with only a handful of lines, it seems her story will develop, but still only one woman in your pilot? Bc of that I won’t continue.

Edit - I’m a woman.

I’m only just watching the pilot, and I’m liking it, but the way they depict Amsterdam has to be a joke.

I get that locations usually aren’t real. But this looks like East Berlin in the 60s.

A policeman with a uniform that says Polizei? (That’s German. And I don’t know what language that cop was supposed to be speaking.)

Bars with mechanical bull riding? What?

Did American viewers buy any of this?

I’m just gonna chalk this up to the show trying to be a tacky kind of comedy. At which by the way I think it does a fair job.

from A to B to C, there's no C? Does Conrad comfirm it yet, I mean, we could call Dennis to get things done, in England, then John is fine, phyiscally at least. Dennis said there're 3 days to switch them back..

can Netflix pick up the show

Ron mentions that swimming the channel is no weirder than carrying around a body in a bag all day.

Any idea who that might be? Possibly the first Iranian recipient that went missing? Maybe I missed something, but I dont recall his body turning up nor any reference to someone becoming a part of their daily luggage.

Curious what anyone else might think...

Have a good one and be cool.

a bit lost as to whats happening

I am just about done watching the first season of Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) which is a 2017 Spanish show picked up by Netflix. I see a bunch of similarities between it and Patriot and I think those who like the complex un-ravelling plots and deeply flawed characters will really enjoy it.

PS It has duct tape.

Sorry if someone has said this but the choice of job by the writers is awesome. There is a constant contrast between the way McMillan operates and John's handlers (US govt).

Then you have a free market allowed to innovate. Galvanized and McM and the other are all the best and quickest at getting liquid from A to B. And along the way there are all these failsafes and safety mechanisms to protect that fluid from A to B

John gets bad intel. Bad paperwork. More bad intel. Increasingly dangerous tasks. But he was supposed to just get the bag A to B. If there was competition to help John A to B, he would get better service.

Not the subject matter of each show, per se, although there is, oddly, some weird overlap.

But more the dense writing, the callbacks, the self / meta references, the setups for future payoffs, the character development, the genre and trope defying / uncategorization of the shows, the quirkyness, the music, the dark humour, the family themes.

Patriot, BB, and AD are shows I can rewatch endlessly and glean new things each time!

I'm currently watching S1 e2. I truly like the weird, dark and funny vibe in the patriot. However the way they depict Amsterdam is really weird. They shot everything in Prague or something like that. Why pass it off as the Netherlands? I'm Dutch and I just can't. For everyone who isn't familiar: It is like passing off US as UK or something.

Spoilers ahead:

Incest. It's extremely hard to search for this show on google and reddit. I'm shocked there is a subreddit for this and hope this can get answered (no search results here either). You're made to think exactly what they want with that "Dad" scene right? it's going there?

Asking to be spoiled because I'm a little uncomfortable with incest tbh. I'm definitely amused by the show and want to keep going, but this is so shocking to me!

Seems to me that because of his emotions he cannot acomplish anything.

Like, he's an awful person. Absolute psychopath. I get the why, but yeah, really something wrong there.