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Seasons 1 and 2 were so very good that I was willing to forget the mediocre 3rd season. I assumed with the extra time to recenter the series due to Covid, the show-runners would realize that Rachel Brosnahan on stage, portraying a comic was the glue that held the rest of the show together.

I was disappointed with the first three outings of Season 4, but "hope springs eternal" forced me to watch Episode 4. No more. There were only a few seconds of Rachel Brosnahan on stage as Mrs. Maisel and those were seconds wasted. It saddens me to write this. Wonderful, beautiful things should be cherished. The people managing this disaster do not cherish it and that shows.

I have read some less than stellar reviews of this show but I watched the first three episodes nonetheless. The reviewers are correct in that the show does not pass up very many cop show clichés. LA setting, bad white guy black good guy, bad Russians, bad former military, nasty black woman in charge, smarmy lawyer, killer hot women, cop drives classic Detroit iron and on and on. You get the idea.

All that said, I will always give Jerry Bruckheimer produced shows a shot. He invented a genre with CSI and Top Gun remains little Tom Chruis' best movie. This one is beginning to grow on me.

Terrorist Christians attacking a Planned Parenthood facility. Yep, that's right near the top of America's threats. Not Muslim extremists, drug cartels or environmentalist extremists. Nope. Do not want to deal with problems that really exist. Storming a Planned Parenthood aborting viable babies? Politically, if not factually, incorrect.

In another time and another culture, episode 2 of Quantico would be called propaganda. Like most propaganda, it serves to take the viewers eye and mind away from reality and refocus it upon truthless fictions that fits the propagandists ends.

I, for one, am done with watching shows based on ideological fantasies treated as if possible and probable.