I loved it and started to hate it.
I recall watching "Nikita" with enthusiasm as a young man, how naive was I back then to what I am today.
Today I see the show as full of psychopaths and killers, it's unclear on whose authority they're even acting, and every episode a number of highly trained agents die basically for questionable reasons and objectives. Many die just because of faults or internal conflicts of the so-called 'sections', which is actually a pretty accurate reflection of what any governmental actions involving violence are usually resulting in.
The show lives of Peta Wilson, but her daily renewed styling like a supermodel in a dark secret spy unit is utmost implausible, just as her and "Michael"'s overacting with him as emotionally cold and hardened but still somehow 'loving' man and her as the 'wild beast' that also has tears in her eyes in every episode. It's a taste too much of everything to feel plausible. They see each other after being separated for years and don't even smile, let alone hug. The complete inability of pretty much everyone in the series to act like normal humans who are capable of speaking sentences longer than 5 words or showing a wider emotional range than a flatline with a few bumps in between made watching the series past Season 2 really challenging tbh. But I loved the concept, and it felt fresh and exciting until then.
Today I see the show as full of psychopaths and killers, it's unclear on whose authority they're even acting, and every episode a number of highly trained agents die basically for questionable reasons and objectives. Many die just because of faults or internal conflicts of the so-called 'sections', which is actually a pretty accurate reflection of what any governmental actions involving violence are usually resulting in.
The show lives of Peta Wilson, but her daily renewed styling like a supermodel in a dark secret spy unit is utmost implausible, just as her and "Michael"'s overacting with him as emotionally cold and hardened but still somehow 'loving' man and her as the 'wild beast' that also has tears in her eyes in every episode. It's a taste too much of everything to feel plausible. They see each other after being separated for years and don't even smile, let alone hug. The complete inability of pretty much everyone in the series to act like normal humans who are capable of speaking sentences longer than 5 words or showing a wider emotional range than a flatline with a few bumps in between made watching the series past Season 2 really challenging tbh. But I loved the concept, and it felt fresh and exciting until then.
- wp02366
- Jul 13, 2025