Espionage

Citadel – The Human Enigma

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  • Title: Citadel – The Human Enigma
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This show is going to make conspiracy theorists so fucking horny. Citadel opens with the fall of the greatest spy organization the world never knew existed. Believed only a myth by the few who had ever heard of it, Citadel was a collective of spies from different nations creating their own organization in attempt to save the world from the evils of everyone, including the likes of governmental agencies and their choices to play god across the globe. Starting aboard a bullet train in the Italian Alps, we see a mission go horribly wrong for Citadel’s top to agents whan a trap is sprung by an equally secret organization of evildoers calling themselves Manticore coordinating the deaths of other agents of Citadel across the globe.

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King – Magic Bus

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  • Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King – Magic Bus
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Throwback Thursday takes us to 80s Washington, D.C. and the unusual partnership between a housewife and a spy. The more technical aspects of “Magic Bus” haven’t aged all that gracefully (even for the time, the episode is pretty goofy). The storyline involves a new prototype disguised as a RV that gets stolen from Amanda‘s (Kate Jackson) driveway by a group of survivalists blackmailing the government to release imprisoned members of their organization. Not exactly Bond-level tech here, even for the 80s, the RV feels even more quaint in 2022. 

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Archer – Dough, Ray, and Me

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  • Title: Archer – Dough, Ray, and Me
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Looking for any way in which to clear their names, Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and the other spies go to work for the CIA as Slater (Christian Slater) hires the band of misfits to kill Fabian Kingsworth (Kayvan Novak). Not knowing that Ray (Adam Reed) is actually Slater’s mole on the inside leads to some complications as the team eventually agree to Lana‘s (Aisha Tyler) plan and double-cross the CIA in order to capture, rather than kill, Fabian and hand him over to Interpol. Offering a bit of a reset, the spies return home to the agency with Lana know taking the lead in whatever new trouble the group may find.

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Archer – Distraction Action

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  • Title: Archer – Distraction Action
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After being played by Fabian Kingsworth (Kayvan Novak), our spies are on the run being hunted. Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) comes up with a plan of distraction to get Lana (Aisha Tyler) into court while calling on for some dirt on Robert (Stephen Tobolowsky) from an old friend to help Lana win custody of her daughter. “Distraction Action” is notable mostly for crazy distractions of Cyril (Chris Parnell) and Pam (Amber Nash) and the near total incompetence of the government agents assigned to capture them. Wacky fun, but rather standard Archer-craziness without any stand-out moments.

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The Old Man – VI

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  • Title: The Old Man – VI
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In the penultimate episode of the First Season of The Old Man Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) runs in to trouble while attempting his big move to cash-in on a debt that leads to killing several guards at a fancy shindig, and a disgraced Harold Harper (John Lithgow) finds himself at an impasse after Emily (Alia Shawkat) is taken by agents of Harold and Dan’s mentor (Joel Grey). As circumstances reach a head, have events finally unfolded in a way to allow Dan and Harold to work together? And has their target become not the old enemy bearing grudges for decades but the master spy who trained them both?

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