Review of Rubicon

Rubicon (2010)
4/10
13 episodes for NOTHING.
8 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I would rate this show 8/10 as it really engaged me, and I was hold in suspense.

I tried hard not to think too much about how little sense lost of it made, the ridiculous going to papers in the digital age. The constructed scenes where everyone has a word to say and the teamwork always shows.

In the beginning, this one walked on thin ice by pretty much revealing absolutely nothing, to a degree that was almost off-putting. Then they trick you into thinking this is going somewhere. They do a superb job of basically still not revealing anything but somehow make you think it's moving slowly, and it somehow actually is, depending on your definition. Again 8/10 suspense.

But here is why I subtract 4 stars. I thought it was all a buildup to some grad super satisfying finale. There is a scene where Will is basically soon damn close to the single most important evidence. You w8ed 13 episodes for it, and the writers torture you by not letting him have it. The last episode reveals absolutely NOTHING. You basically know as much as you suspected halfway in. There apparently was another season planned, but it was cancelled.

So if you are up for a huge cliffhanger, and a conclusion that will never come, go for it!
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