In From the Cold (2022)

[Greg]

I don't think I've ever said this before, but this show is really dumb. Really dumb. It's shooting for a Salt/Atomic Blonde vibe but it gets hamstrung by it's own dumbness. So, thee people do crazy things after their eyes flash in a mysterious way. This happens in Spain so we get to check the cool Euro Vibe. Enter a mother and daughter having mother daughter discussions on the way from the airport in Spain to their hotel. At the hotel, they meet up with the bus carrying the US Figure Skating team. But the daughter also has a US Figure Skating Hoody. Why wasn't she on the bus with her teammates. There are lots of questions like this that I'm sure future episodes.

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Just from the previews you know the mother is an ex-Russian assassin. Well, the CIA have come calling in the form of a stereotypical bad man who will do anything to get what he wants.  Jenny the mother/assassin says no. There is a big fight, which was pretty good and pretty bad. She wins the fight against multiple attackers only to be easily knocked unconscious once the fight is over. Dumb. She takes the job. She's got to break into somewhere to get the thing so they can do another thing

Dumb all the way down until the very last scene when something extraordinary happens and you have to question the whole set-up. What happens is dumb but kind of makes me want to see the next episode. Something i wouldn't have said would happen up until that scene.

Not really recommended but there is that one good/bad fight. Fast forward to it maybe.

[Greg]

And I am out. This is the apex of dumb. So much dumb wrapped in dumb. I think I lost IQ points watching the dumb.

Here is an example of the dumb. Our CIA lead and his coerced Russian Assassin are on the trail of whoever is doing the bad thing in Spain. They have to go to a wedding to find some of the infected people the CIA is tracking. It seems clear that there are only two people on station in all of Spain because only the CIA lead and the Russian Assassin go to check out the wedding. The other CIA operative stays behind in the chair, because he's the guy in the chair.

Did I mention we are in Spain? A land that is not the US? Spain. Definitely Spain. Madrid to be specific. At the Spanish wedding one of the Groomsmen or possibly the groom starts acting weird and he pulls out a pistol, almost as if there is an internal struggle going on inside the groomsmen's brain to not pull up the pistol. At this Spanish Wedding the CIA guy runs up to stop the guy from pulling the trigger. The American CIA guy yells at the Spanish guy in English to drop the weapon. Several Times. Drop the weapon. In English. Now it might have been the case that the internal struggle was too much for the groomsman to overcome. Or it could have been the Spanish Guy didn't know what you were yelling because you were yelling a language he didn't speak. The CIA guys shoots the groomsman. So dumb.

Now, they do speak other languages in the show. Chinese and Russian and I do believe Spanish. They even do subtitles for those other languages. But no. In this case they yell at the Spanish guy in English.

[Drunk Monk]

Thanks for jumping on that grenade, bro. I was eyeing it but unless I hear some good reports, I'll give it a miss.

[Greg]

I really hoped it would be good. Had high hopes. And there wasn't even a fight scene in the second episode.

[thatguy]

We couldn't get thru Ep01. Really dumb. Bad dialog. Clichéd. Not funny. 

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[Drunk Monk]

Two D00M vetos? I'm so out. 

Thanks brothers. I totally was going to watch this one.