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"Imogen" is a spy with Britain's MI6, with close contacts in the CIA (Josh Charles) and in French Intelligence (Dali Bensallah), trying to confirm whether her "target" (played quite compellingly by Lebanese-American actress Yumna Marwan) is a high-level ISIS terrorist commander on a deadly covert mission, or is a deeply troubled and concerned parent just trying desperately to keep her young daughter safe. As is so often the case, Ms. Moss is almost freakishly good as the mysterious lead character. And James Purefoy leads an international supporting cast of equally fascinating background/flashback characters. If you have any doubts about Ms. Moss' portrayal of an action heroine, watch her take on a couple of armed thugs on motorcycles and beat them both to death with a nasty iron pipe. THWAPP!

This series starts out with the main character setting up and sending a man off to jail. The main character is played by Elisabeth Moss and her character cant stop grinning.

This series has only aires two episodes when I review this but you can already see what kind of production this is. You are suppose to believe a 160 cm, 120 pound woman who is also unfit, can beat up women and men of 200+ pounds coming at her with big knives as if its a walk in the park. Its not believable since size matters, gender matters. She is also extremely bossy and acts like she owns the world wearing constant lipgloss and perfect hair.

Per usual the men are weak, pathetic, childish and bad, especially the White males. The exception is a few racially diverse characters that are ofc, the best of all men.

Its almost like Elizabeth Moss just took a step out from the Handmaid's tale series into this, because she basically plays the same role.

The acting is decent, Im not sure about Elisabeth Moss though since she is constantly grinning. Camerawork, scenography is fine, the story is not. Its like a feminist tale. The story have a fast tempo though which is welcomed.

4/10 If you love forced racial and gender diversity and feminism, this show is for you.

Was very excited to see a new Elisabeth Moss series, and after the first two episodes, it is already paying off. Elisabeth's portrayal of a spy hints at some sociopathy(?- do all intelligence agents have a bit of this ;), love the ever present yet somehow sinister(?) smile.

The way Elisabeth is choosing to portray this character, I'm looking forward to getting more of her character's backstory, whereas so many series I don't make it past the first episode, particularly with what feel like unnecessary or formulaic back stories... hopefully this one doesn't turn out to be one of those in later episodes

(Spoiler alert) The first episode definitely delivered what I was looking for, although I would have liked to have seen the camp scene where Elisabeth ex-filtrated the alleged "villain" fleshed out in into a full episode. Some of it happened a bit too quickly/unrealistically? Slower paced would have been better.

(Spoiler alert) The second episode, I feel there were a couple of unrealistic plot foibles, ie two seemingly seasoned intelligence officers getting into a childlike scuffle at an airport (huh??) and an over the top American intelligence officer in general? (not his acting, but the writing)

but again, with so many mindless series to stream that bore you quickly into the first episode, this is a very engaging and welcome, well acted series so far, definitely looking forward to the third episode and beyond, which is more than I can say for 95% of streaming series that rank below my personal threshold of a 7.5/10ish rating

Thank you Elisabeth, your portrayal is the icing thus far :)

The first episode started off good. And then you go into the second episode and it makes no goddamn sense. It's like all of a sudden, they are two best friends who went to college together talking about things that they didn't even talk about in the first episode. How does she not know she's an agent like none of it makes any sense writing is way off and too confusing. I stopped halfway through the second episode. Like I said, I wanted to like this because I love Moss and the handmaid's tale is one of my favorite shows, this is just bad Writing and all over the place. There is to many things to watch to waste anytime on this. Please won't make it to a second season.

The first episode had potential but was boring. Plus, they tried too hard to establish the main character as being this cool and collected spy. Also, too much smoking was unnecessarily plugged into the scenes. Felt like I was watching a cigarette ad. It didn't add anything to the scenes. Second episode this seasoned spy has her feathers ruffled over a disagreement about... belly dancing? REALLY?! After about 12 minutes of hearing the main character complain and act pissy towards her travel companion not liking belly dancing I was done with this show. Like I said the first episode I was bored by the second episode actually really irritated me. You want a good spy thriller? Watch The Americans or any James Bond movie from the last 20 years.