more Netflix mashed potatoes
It looked promising at the outset.
Arnie looks just right for the part, macho aged killer/spy, perfect makeup and hair groomed just right for a 65 year old, virile hero.
(In real life Arnie is 75 years old but he pulls it off quite well)
Of course, being a 65 year old virile hero he has to have a stunning 50'ish wife, the absolutely gorgeous Fabiana Udenio.
What can go wrong?
Well, you give it to the Netflix diversity crew and the 12 year old Netflix scriptwriters, and allow them to take over the reins, that's what can go wrong!
And what we've got is a perfectly diversity balanced piece o' trash
The leaders of the cast come with a stereotyped lesbian, properly overweight and smart-assed as she should be. The brilliant black ops guy who looks like he just graduated from MIT but remains one of the "brothers".
The rest are a collage of caricatures which demand that even the wokest on the project should be squirming with embarrassment.
And that's before we even get to the plot, which is so over the top stupid in extoling the virtues of the CIA that you want to lobby for that concupiscent General Petraeus to be reinstated.
We're expected to believe that the father (Arnie himself) and his daughter are both working for the CIA and didn't know each other's occupation. (Mind you, with the stories in the media about the running of the CIA, it could not only be possible but more likely probable) They don't find out until they end up on a mission together and the mission is a contrived, poor man's James Bond escapade with no believability whatsoever.
I like Arnie, and for a few minutes there it looked as though it might be a good show but it quickly fell off the edge and drowned in its own spectral sea.
I wish I could run Netflix, I'd fire ninety percent of the staff and send them back to their jobs at the 7/11 or Amazon fulfillment centers. Nobody in the organization would be the worse off for it but we'd end up seeing better shows that's for sure.
Arnie looks just right for the part, macho aged killer/spy, perfect makeup and hair groomed just right for a 65 year old, virile hero.
(In real life Arnie is 75 years old but he pulls it off quite well)
Of course, being a 65 year old virile hero he has to have a stunning 50'ish wife, the absolutely gorgeous Fabiana Udenio.
What can go wrong?
Well, you give it to the Netflix diversity crew and the 12 year old Netflix scriptwriters, and allow them to take over the reins, that's what can go wrong!
And what we've got is a perfectly diversity balanced piece o' trash
The leaders of the cast come with a stereotyped lesbian, properly overweight and smart-assed as she should be. The brilliant black ops guy who looks like he just graduated from MIT but remains one of the "brothers".
The rest are a collage of caricatures which demand that even the wokest on the project should be squirming with embarrassment.
And that's before we even get to the plot, which is so over the top stupid in extoling the virtues of the CIA that you want to lobby for that concupiscent General Petraeus to be reinstated.
We're expected to believe that the father (Arnie himself) and his daughter are both working for the CIA and didn't know each other's occupation. (Mind you, with the stories in the media about the running of the CIA, it could not only be possible but more likely probable) They don't find out until they end up on a mission together and the mission is a contrived, poor man's James Bond escapade with no believability whatsoever.
I like Arnie, and for a few minutes there it looked as though it might be a good show but it quickly fell off the edge and drowned in its own spectral sea.
I wish I could run Netflix, I'd fire ninety percent of the staff and send them back to their jobs at the 7/11 or Amazon fulfillment centers. Nobody in the organization would be the worse off for it but we'd end up seeing better shows that's for sure.
- cordenw
- Jun 4, 2023