SummaryThe lives of con man Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia) and undercover CIA officer Emma (Catherine Haena Kim) become entangled in the spy drama series based on the Korean series "My Fellow Citizens."
SummaryThe lives of con man Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia) and undercover CIA officer Emma (Catherine Haena Kim) become entangled in the spy drama series based on the Korean series "My Fellow Citizens."
Although it's too soon to tell exactly where The Company You Keep will end up by the end of its freshman season, this new series has already positioned itself to steal audiences' hearts with its dynamic cast, fun plot, and swoony romance.
Ventimiglia and Kim do have remarkable on screen chemistry. ... I’m curious enough about this fairly ambitious network television drama to keep the show company and find out.
The conflict between obligations to loved ones and the desire to get out of the game creates tension and interest in the show’s first two episodes, as does genuine chemistry with co-star Catherine Haena Kim. ... The knots in Charlie’s stories are the stuff of pulp novels or — just as good — lightly pleasurable serial TV.
There’s a lot of exposition that still has to be presented. But the show that this settles into being is decent or, as I keep saying, has the potential to be decent, since I’ve only seen 20 minutes of it.
Milo Ventimiglia is all about family again in The Company You Keep, only this time, it’s a family of thieves, and the romance he’s trying to balance is, unknowingly, with a CIA agent. Adapted from a South Korean show, the ABC series aims higher than most broadcast dramas, but the criminal-cop dynamic feels like a concept with, at best, a built-in expiration date.
The show can’t seem to land on an overall tone or sensibility. Ventimiglia is likable, that’s not the issue. But as written, the character is too bland and underdeveloped to really carry a show. Same goes for his romantic counterpart in Kim.