SummaryAMC launches its third original series Rubicon on August 1st. The show is based in New York City and revolves around a conspiracy at a government intelligence agency. James Badge Dale and Miranda Richardson star.
SummaryAMC launches its third original series Rubicon on August 1st. The show is based in New York City and revolves around a conspiracy at a government intelligence agency. James Badge Dale and Miranda Richardson star.
It looks like AMC is three-for-three with their newest original drama, Rubicon, a throwback espionage thriller that takes place in the present--if the present were more like the 1970s than the 2000s.
Rubicon is not a show for the impatience, and it has the kind of ambitions that could set viewers up for a letdown. But so far, I admire its intelligence.
We want a second season! Rubicon is simply outstanding.
Obviously for AMC money matters more than stories and, despite I can understand, I can't agree with it. Rubicon cancelled and Walking Dead renewed? C'mon! What a joke!
It's a little aloof, a spy show without the usual espionage theatrics. That may take some getting accustomed to, but in these early episodes, Rubicon makes a strong case that it's a series that's worth the effort.
If you're a viewer into quick and easy answers and seek resolution at the 59-minute mark, this is probably not your show. But if you're interested in the notion that post-9/11 paranoia is justified in ways we haven't even realized (and perhaps it would be too chilling if we did), and you have a fundamental distrust of government doings, Rubicon could be your new mental puzzle.
Turgid and plodding, Rubicon has the pace of an industrial-training film and the lucidity of a Czech art movie with the subtitles turned off. It would have to triple its pulse to rise to the level of lethargy.
Review from France ! Best TV show these last months... Gripping, cerebral, interesting characters and mood. An original TV show. What a shame it' stopped.
****...slowest...moving...show...ever...made. The show has a decent premise, but does nothing with it. After setting up a potentially intriguing story in the first couple of episodes, the following 5-6 episodes go ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE. Nothing really happens until the 9th episode. The entire middle of this show was a complete waste. Very little is revealed about the characters and their personalities. They are all very generic and there is almost no character development to speak of. If you're going to do a show where almost nothing happens, you'd better at least have interesting characters and good character **** this show doesn't. The entire middle portion of the season is just a long, drawn-out tease in which nothing happens. For 5-6 consecutive episodes people just walk around suspiciously looking over their shoulders with intense expressions. It's like the makers of the show are trying to fool the audience into thinking something is happening, but nothing really is. While some characters look over their shoulders, the rest are sitting in rooms spouting off worthless national security jargon that does nothing to advance what little plot there is. This show is an example of style over substance. The makers are giving you an abstract version of what a "thriller" is by playing creepy music while mysterious figures lurk in the **** the while NOTHING is really happening at all.
I'm a big fan of James Badge Dale ever since seeing him in The Pacific, so I'll continue to give Rubicon a chance. But after three episodes, the show feels sluggish and chilly. It tries way too hard to create a sense of paranoia and the codes and clues that Will Travers manages to decrypt border on absurd. I haven't given up on it yet, but things had better turn around quickly.
I'm still trying to get into "Rubicon," but it seems unbearably slow. Also, the lighting and camera angles seemed better than average at first but then got old fast. Sort of like a film school grad trying out every noir-ish trick all at once. After several episodes I'm still pretty much convinced there is no plot - they're just going to keep hinting until they actually think of one. All we know for certain is that everyone suspects everyone else and the agency director is an ass who talks with his mouth full.
It. Should. Not. Take. So. Long. To. Utter. Sentences.
I had high hopes for the show, and yet could only think of how it would follow in the foorsteps of every show that had been their and done it before.
With the same mystery plot, intregue, conspirancies that we have seen countless times before from Dean Koontz,Tom Clancy, Stephen King and James Patterson or from shows such as LOST ( god what a waste of space ), First Edition, John Doe ( yet another cancelled show leaving you hanging ) or even the X Files Rubicon does no more to the genre or TV than fill time until the rating season comes back.
The more I watch the more I see it sink into an excuse to get out of the house and take the dog for a walk.