¡¡¡Spoiler Alert!!! Seriously, the first 10 seconds of this thing are enough to realize that it isn't worth watching. Super tough Aryan guy is being tortured by brown guy. Tough guy has a smirk on his face like he's having fun. That's all it took for me to turn it off. This was obviously written by dorks who do nothing but watch crappy movies so everything they write is a lousy pastiche of the last ten crappy movies they sat through. Sorry, dorks, but I'm not sitting through this. Violence without consequences is just stupid and not entertaining in the least, at least not for anyone over about nine years old.I can't believe that some have called this "action-packed." More like packed with dung and filler and the most clichéd action sequences that have ever been put on film. It's like watching a really bad SNL skit about a secret agent except this isn't funny and takes itself seriously.

This may contain spoilers. We are told at the top of the page that this small department is unknown even to the President. Now THAT makes me wonder who killed JFK. In his instance our serving President was once the Vice President. He had his brainwashed no doubt and cleared of all THAT knowledge. With My COuntry RIght or WRONG as a prevailing mantra in the US just look at what could be done here. The series itself is an action roller coaster at times fairly exciting in those quite good butt kicking sequences. There is the obligatory background deceit and lies and an enigma within a mystery nonsense. Our hero Agent X Jeff Hephner fairly attractive looked awkward for most of the shots and had an odd grin smirk smile most of the time. I would not be able to appreciate any emotion he might try to display. Sharon Stone was of no particular importance really and the part could have been any number of known females if it had to be a lady. No story showing her as a potential top dog. While a few episodes were specifically handled a running thread story involved a vengeful one time Agent. He did not enjoy being killed off so we have the typical number of episodes where he cleverly tries to get revenge. The all action finale sees him eventually offed and the Russian Leader assisted to his death by a perhaps not too particularly honest US leader. If only someone had the guts to give Khrushchev a good hammering with THAT SHOE. Yes Russia again the bad guy. Boy how have we missed them for over twenty years now.With this so far not expected to continue we do have unresolved stuff. Is there going to be the patter of little feet from John whatshisname and a very flexible Olga. A welcome diversion on screen for some but not all according to some thread lines. If only John's exploits were recognised just think how many Purple Hearts he would get. Now he can only expect cent sized fizzy sweets with 'well done' or 'good boy' on them. We did not even get to see Ms Stone's famous method acting legs at work. Is she ageing well? Keeping shape OK. No acting stretch in this. A role similar to this is still in play with Madam Secretary which I do enjoy presently and State of Affairs which expected too much hard work for a LADY although despite others who do not like Heigl I can look at for long periods. That was a failed venture yet maybe better than this for its story line content and relative lack of action fighting fireworks and general destruction. Yes maybe it is ended. John with in the wind, Eckhart on the mend and looking heroic for a moment with some shady background to explain to us, Malcolm, McRaney a voice so recognised carrying this show about to enter a year of torture, will he become a sort of Brody?. The plans of the V.P. Doubt anyone can clear all that up. I give a less than halfway mark only because the genre has been well mixed and mashed over the years and this hardly ever gave us a sense of real danger or cliffhangers. John did look like the proverbial SMILING ASSASSIN.

Jesus Christ! What the h3ll is that sh1t? Thank god I have a lot of experience in films, movies, series, short films etc.I needed just 5 minutes to hate it! Pilot was enough; and not even full of it!First of all in the beginning he struggles the one man and the other one waits for what? Oh, yes to be killed! Excuse me that there is no chance this happen in real life! Then he goes in an elevator going up! Blinking the eye to two gays! And after killing the first two, then he shots that bald guy on the left arm and he passes out! Then he wakes up, they fight and the blood goes to the right arm! Jesus!I want to scream aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Please don't let them make crap like these, ever again please, please, please. Normally I wouldn't even bother write a review, but i preferred that than breaking my computer!

There are some pros: 1. The opening and ending music is nice. Red X's on people's faces on historical photos is a nice touch too. 2. Whenever someone is shot, the blood splatter effect is the best I've seen. Hand on heart honest! It's realistic, yet not overly dramatic like those in the movie "300".Now comes SPOILERS! CAREFUL! But I would still not recommend this show to anyone. Because... Cons: 1. (S01E01) John shoots a dude in the left shoulder, and later fights him on the roof. The blood stain is now on the right, and as the dude swings a metal pipe, no bullet hole is visible, only a patch of blood. He also uses his arm as if he was never shot at all. Too fake, and this being the first fight scene that we see, is not very encouraging. 2. (S01E01) After John saves the girl, they encounter an AK47 in the construction site, with no recoil, never knew they made them that way.3. (S02E02) John chases a wolf with a sniper rifle. As he aims, the entire head is visible in the scope. But the wolf is less than 400 yards away! With that scope that close to target, I highly doubt that the wolf will be visible. One of it's nostrils would be magnified large enough to fill the entire scope. 4. (S02E02) Malik, when helping John escape, carries a grenade to the terrorists, and it explodes, killing himself too. A normal person would toss the grenade at the terrorists.Too many fallacies in just two episodes. I'm not saying this TV show will definitely fail. But, a lot more attention to detail is needed for survival. Calling for more proofreading before submitting the scene is not overly punctilious, it's what should be done.Well... Let's hope they improve, but clearly, not a lot of thought was put into the filming, YET. (Don't lo0se hope! I'm still hopeful!)