mikekuch

Interesting premise. Click.

Timely and interesting insight: Engagement sustained through 20 mins.

Horror? Satire? Could these not only be the worst sort of villains in history, but accurate enough archetypes to make you wonder how accurate this might be. A call from the president? Fiction.

Compound this with the real world risk of deep fakes that could implode every divide in existence, and you have my phone set aside and intrigued how this all plays out.

Then I witnessed the interwebs equivalent of a Rick Roll. What a copout. I didn't need resolution, just a continuation of the narrative.

Ever since Winston shot John Wick at the end of JW3, he became a villain as worthy of John's revenge as any in the universe.

But JW4 and this show make the mistake of making him the protagonist.

Why are we rooting for him again?

Because his criminal brother kills dozens of former coworkers and friends to ineffectively steal from his long time boss, and gets justifiably taken out?

Keep in mind that Gibsons character is in the same role that Winston eventually ascends to, doing all the things management of an international murder cabal is expected to do.

Why would Charon betray him? How does this demonstrate the loyalty to the Code he eventually embodies? Why not just kill Gibson the many times they had the chance? (Sniper) How was the plan for Winston to fall down a garbage chute, be ambushed by Gibson, then shot by the cop who happened to overhear that he ordered the random house/family to be burned? Winston did it.

They missed a rare opportunity here.

They could have expanded their universe, showed Continental hotel in Osaka back in the 1950s. The Casablanca Continental in the 1940s, the Rome Continental in the 1960s. NY and the Bowery in the 70s. Explore John's history with Sofia, the Russian Gypsies, and/or Aurelio.

How and when did the High Table originate?

The characters and story they chose were bland and contrived.

Wasted potential.