\u201cThe Terminal List is Amazon Prime\u2019s action thriller tv series based on Jack Carr\u2019s 2018 novel of the same name.\u00a0 It stars Chris Pratt as Navy Seal Lieutenant Commander James Reece and centers around Reece\u2019s revenge mission to avenge the deaths of his family and comrades in arms.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t put in my usual spoiler alert because I\u2019d rather not go through the whole plot piece by piece.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just give you my reaction to the series and recommendations.<\/p>\n
So, first off, the author Jack Carr was a Navy Seal so I guess that lends some credibility to the technical details of the show.\u00a0 As far as the plot, it\u2019s a highly charged story of wrongdoing by the rich and powerful that a few years ago I would have said was too outlandish to be true.\u00a0 But now that real life government malfeasance (FBI targeting of political opponents, COVID related tyrannical actions) is standard operating procedure who is to say what\u2019s outlandish.<\/p>\n
The acting for the most part is very good.\u00a0 There were maybe one or two scenes that didn\u2019t seem to correspond to how I thought the characters emotional states would make them act.\u00a0 But since the author probably corresponds more closely than I do to the psychological profile of the characters in the story maybe it\u2019s my ignorance of their mindsets.<\/p>\n
One of the plot elements involves the brain trauma that Reece is suffering from.\u00a0 This leads him sometimes to slip back into old scenes in his life, sometimes at very inconvenient points in the plot.\u00a0 Occasionally during the story, I thought the memory problems were a little distracting but by the end of the series I was satisfied that the plot device was justified. \u00a0It also gives us a chance to see his personal life with his murdered wife and daughter.\u00a0 Now this is a difficult layer to add to a story like this.\u00a0 I would say they pulled it off mostly well.\u00a0 By the end of the story the character seems to have come to closure with his loss.<\/p>\n
As far as action, there is plenty of it.\u00a0 Reece and his allies do an amazing amount of damage to the people on his \u201cterminal list.\u201d\u00a0 And there is quite a bit of brutality to his campaign.\u00a0 Some of it is up close and personal.\u00a0 But I would say the violence isn\u2019t merely gratuitous but follows the plot of avenging the terrible crimes that have been committed against Reece.<\/p>\n
I watched the show with Camera Girl.\u00a0 Now she\u2019s an action novel junkie.\u00a0 She\u2019s a big fan of Reacher and Bosch so a little violence isn\u2019t a big deal to her.\u00a0 There was one scene that she thought was a little too vicious but by the end of the series she was a big fan of the story.\u00a0 So, I would recommend this series to anyone who likes the action thriller genre.\u00a0 It also lacked any woke nonsense of any kind.\u00a0 In that sense it was very refreshing.\u00a0 I give this series a highly recommended rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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