The Terminal List - TV Series (Starring Chris Pratt/Directed By Antoine Fuqua)

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Officially in the argument for worst tv slop I’ve ever purposely watched. All because I happened to see an interview with Robert Wisdom aka Bunny Colvin in which he claimed this show reminded him of The Wire in terms of being involved with an instant classic. I will spit on that elderly fabulist for that shameless deception.

The season finale was - similar to the first season of this infantile homoerotic GI Joe fantasy - something out of the low iq mind of a Division III hockey player who did a keg stand immediately after a whippet and sat down in a frat house basement to write “the great american story.”

The super seal killer CACs are still saying brother 1,000 times like it’s the N word in a lazy early 90s NWA verse. Long Live the Brotherhood is equal parts “yo joe!” and KKK chant.

The diminutive dork playing Ben Edwards still has the laughably limited acting range of one facial expression, which in the finale increasingly looks like the face a broke barfly makes when he asks you if you can spare a cigarette as you stand outside the bar, and you say no even though he watched you pull out a pack a second ago, and he just cannot believe you would do him like that.

Navy Seals have a hit rate of 70-90% with any gun they fire; special forces of all other countries? .0001%.

The Seals aren’t just highly trained for special ops, they also have unlimited stash houses and secret cabins across the globe. And complicated explosives and wiring to deploy against all other special force soldiers, who are as unprepared and ignorant of how to match wits as any of the viewers would be.

Chris Pratt remains totally unserious. What a bizarre career turn. He’s a simpleton.

The letter Edwards wrote to Pratt made Jackson’s Sons of Anarchy journal entries seem compelling and concise by comparison.

The message of the show: government bad; black man deceitful; israelis are always to be trusted; white neanderthals are the true original man.

When ben edwards goes to the cafe in israel to give that lizard faced bum bytch the book and bracelet from her mom…. Enough already - fukk you.

The writers have no idea how to land this hideous construction-paper plane, so they bring Nick Sobotka in for a pointless scene of stale dialogue. Then ben edwards is taking a polygraph that for the target audience of CAC tards really spells out on the screen whether the answers to the insipid questions are true or false.

Then, mercifully, it’s all over. Everyone involved in creating this should be drowned in a vat of pig diarrhea.
 

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Why is a Rhodesian (sp?) in the US military?

The Hastings character would be one of the children of the former citizens of Rhodesia that came to the US, from the of the Bush War in the 1970s(where the white minority used chem weapons to try staying in power) all through the land seizures by Zimbabwe in the 90s.
 

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The original series was a t lest somewhat watchable. This shyt was so boringly bad I couldn’t get past the third episode. Also the guy playing Omar in this was in the Covenant, I wonder if Muslims view him as a sambo character for them :mjlol: Cause why is he showing up in two pieces of media as a devoted lapdog to American imperialism? At least that Netflix movie Mosul showed what real soldiers of middle eastern heritage would act, not blindly joining Americans in a covert operation that has nothing to do with Afghanistan and if found out would cause issues for his home country. 0/10, the authors books are so bad too.
 

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The Hastings character would be one of the children of the former citizens of Rhodesia that came to the US, from the of the Bush War in the 1970s(where the white minority used chem weapons to try staying in power) all through the land seizures by Zimbabwe in the 90s.

If he's 2nd/3rd generation why does he have the accent?
 

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If he's 2nd/3rd generation why does he have the accent?

Why wouldn't he? The character spoke of spending time on a hunting reserve with his uncle, working on game hunts for Cape Buffalo. That's not something that just fades because you move abroad. Especially if you're clannish, that can have people holding on through generations.

In any case, the most likely reason is that the actor can't do any American accent worth the effort.
 

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I watched the last 2 episodes of the series this past weekend.

Penultimate episode - I gotta say, that shyt, as mind-numbing ridiculous as it was, it was crazy entertaining. The scene were they decided that the plane cannot take off and just peppered it with bullets was straight comedy. Knowing that these books were written by a former Navy Seal, this must have been a wet dream of his - complete military porn. And as a viewer, that shyt was nuts and entertaining.

Last episode - so the previous episode was pretty good, the last episode was reminder of how to fukk it all up. They got set up by Haverford, the team is contemplating what to do, and Ben says "I got it". Next thing you know, the viewers are then shown a montage of what looks like a collage scenes of Rambo and A River Runs Through It. Like wtf how did they get from the boat scene to all that shyt? Did this take a week to happen? A month? Why did he do that all by himself when he had other operators on his team who are highly skilled? So fukking dumb and weird.

And that last scene where he's doing an interview to get a job at the CIA seemed like it was written by a 12 year old. "This is where I belong" :mjlol:

Entertaining, but they tried to keep it somewhat serious which made it ridiculous. 5/10.

If you want to watch something as silly as this but more entertaining, go watch Strikeback. They don't take it seriously, but you get all the military porn like this show.
 
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