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- ABC
- Feb 24, 2019
- ABC
- Feb 24, 2019
Summary FBI agent Will Chase (Scott Foley)--codename is “Whiskey Cavalier”-- is teamed up with CIA Francesca “Frankie” Trowbridge (Lauren Cohan)-- “Fiery Tribune”--to lead a team of spies as they save the world, deal with relationships, and office politics in this dramedy from Dave Hemingson and Bill Lawrence.
Created By: David Hemingson
- ABC
- Feb 24, 2019
- ABC
- Feb 24, 2019
Summary FBI agent Will Chase (Scott Foley)--codename is “Whiskey Cavalier”-- is teamed up with CIA Francesca “Frankie” Trowbridge (Lauren Cohan)-- “Fiery Tribune”--to lead a team of spies as they save the world, deal with relationships, and office politics in this dramedy from Dave Hemingson and Bill Lawrence.
Created By: David Hemingson
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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53% Positive
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47% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
64
53% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
47% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Foley, Cohan and the supporting cast members need not unduly worry whether their adventures are all that plausible. What matters is whether this show is fun to watch regardless. Which it is.
Foley and Cohan look great and the evident pleasure they're having playing spy is infectious when coupled with the postcard locations and a little action flair. Whiskey Cavalier may not take you back to 1985, but it comes closer than some of the recent stabs at this genre.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 42 User Ratings
6.4
52% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
33% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
14% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 42 User Ratings
6.4
52% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
33% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
14% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Writing this after the first episode.
I wouldn't have chosen to watch from the trailers, but my wife recorded it. From the trailer I was confident in the female leads ability to play her character well but I had my doubts about the male lead. Well we watched it and I was wrong. I instantly loved the male lead, his character wasn't cliche or swashbuckling as you might expect. His character is a successful and talented agent with a detrimental level of sensitivity that makes for a really fun time. In fact every character in this show was utterly dripping with awesome character. I am really going to enjoy this series.
Oh and the cinematography and editing is really top notch. Most people don't notice those things when they are good but you will know they are good when they hook you in deep within a fully coherent and scripted episode.
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SEASON 1
There is plenty of room for improvement and I think the show is still trying to figure out if it wants to be more like Alias or more like Castle. Perhaps it can find a happy middle to which I would be fine with and for now, it's scratching a semi-serious itch for something spy like.
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SEASON 1
You may detect a strong scent of eau de “Castle.” The 12-year-old boy within the adult TV critic finds this in the show quite pleasing. (I did watch every episode of “Castle,” to be sure.) I’m happy to overlook whatever is lacking or obvious or oversold or simplistic in its construction for the sake of the adventure, the scenery and the fun gang dynamics.
Viewers have seen all these elements before, but in “Whiskey Cavalier” they’re deployed in a fun, fast-moving way that the show and the charm of its leads is hard to resist.
Yes, it’s cheesy, but it’s hard to hold that against the show too much when it’s also half the point. ... It also keeps insisting that Will and Frankie have undeniable sexual chemistry, but at least in the two episodes screened for critics, that has yet to prove itself.
Whiskey Cavalier could turn into a solid procedural for ABC, as both Foley and Cohan have enough charm to see it through its weaker moments. There may not be anything particularly new about what the show does or how it does it, but it checks the right boxes.
There’s nothing wrong with the casting but there’s nothing dynamic about it, either. ... Whiskey Cavalier may use terms like “retinal scans” in its storylines in order to sound like the espionage dialogue is up to date, but make no mistake: you’ve seen this show a dozen times before.
I think the show is good, but it could be so much better. I feel they are trying to keep it almost as a family show, when it would be better if it were a bit darker.
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SEASON 1
Cool Breeze didn't die, he was murdered.
It isn't the worst, but I can't really say the first couple episodes were good.
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SEASON 1
I want to like this show so badly, but it's like Mission Impossible Lite. How can they possible be secret agents when they are so loudly talking into their earpieces, shooting off guns in crowds in broad day light, and running like crazy people with guns blazing. Secret agents, aha. Maybe the stories will get less cartoonish, I mean did you see the size of that bomb from last week? It was massive! I love the premise, I love the actors, please give them better scripts! BBC Killing Eve makes this look like a 5th grade book report.
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SEASON 1
Remember Castle? It was a great show. Whiskey Cavelier remembers. A goofy but cunning older guy, a shrewd and passionate badass lady-cop and a whole ton of fun sexual tension kept that show watchable for 8 awesome seasons.
With Whiskey Cavalier I'm tapping out after episode 3. The show has tried to capture the feeing of Castle but with a twist, bad writing and unlikable charachters. The three main leads are fine and have a good chemistry but tack on a socially awkward and inherently unlikable duo of support staff and shoehorn them into every scene formulaically and you have a recipe for disaster. It's like getting spinach sprinkled on your ice cream.
The psycologist charachter has a dour and negative comment in literally every scene she's cast in and the gadget guy feels like the guy who nobody invited to the party but showed up anyway trying to seem cool.
Even were we to overlook these two "turds in the punchbowl" the dialog between the two leads is forced, cheesy and unsubtle.
Overall this show is not fun, its a dour slog. The pilot was okay and the second episode was almost as good, with the third episode I've realized there's not enough here to like to justify my time.
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