Episode Guide
Episode 1 – The review score for Episode 2 is /5. Episode 3 – The review score for Episode 4 is /5. Episode 5 – The review score for Episode 6 is /5. Episode 7 – The review score for Episode 8 is /5
The Terminal List is a great action movie with a lot of potential, but it could have been condensed down to a much shorter runtime. The plot is convoluted and the characters are one-dimensional, making it difficult to care about them.
The show’s slow segments are its Achilles’ heel, and while the revolving door of characters does nothing to make you invest in them, Chris Pratt is not enough to make up for it. This is a disappointing thriller.
The Terminal List is a pulsating thriller that takes elements from other movies and shows of the genre. It then grabs the core elements of those and blends them together into what should be a pulsating thriller.
The story centers on Chris Pratt, a former Navy SEAL officer who is now working as a security consultant. The story opens with Pratt leading a covert mission deep in enemy territory. However, their entry point is rigged with explosives and enemies quickly ambush them. ..
As explosives are triggered, Reece is one of the few remaining men to survive the incident. With the plan a bust, the soldiers head back to US soil and are debriefed. Mourning the loss of their brothers, Reece soon finds that the war has followed them home.
Reece quickly realizes that there’s a conspiracy going on all the way up the chain of command. Naturally, Reece begins to investigate further, setting up a kill list as he begins going after those responsible.
The idea of a kill list is simple and effective, but the execution is slow and cumbersome. The showrunners should make the list more action-packed and exciting so that it feels more like a thrilling mission than a tedious task.
The episode run-time for “The 100” is around 8 hours. This show could have easily told the same story in half that length by using flashbacks and dreamy sequences to show Reece’s struggles, and by having shorter segments for supporting players that would be more invested in their plight. ..
Reece’s investigation into the Terminal List’s gone wrong, and he has to work with a female reporter by the name of Katie Buranek to try and figure out what happened. This works reasonably well, balancing out the power dynamics so that Reece does most of the work and Katie uses her skills to look deeper into the root cause of the operation-gone-wrong.
The show has a lot of investigative work early on, but it doesn’t seem to have a point. The cliffhanger at the end of episode 5 feels like an ending, but there are still 3 more hours of content. ..
The Terminal List feels like it’s taking forever to get anywhere.
The whole episode splits up tiny bursts of gunfire around flashbacks, radio chatter and Tony Layun (JD Pardo) organizing traffic.
The pacing of The Terminal List is ultimately its most fatal flaw and something that drags everything down into mediocrity. There’s definitely a good story in here somewhere, but it didn’t need 8 episodes to tell it. ..
The show does look pretty good, although the current trend with filming everything wearing sunglasses and the brightness turned down to 0 at night makes it difficult to discern exactly what’s happening during action scenes in the dark. It’s a trend that really needs to stop in Hollywood and The Terminal List is another example of why.
The Terminal List is a forgettable series that spends too much time on its own and doesn’t deliver on its promise.
The Terminal List starts brightly but fizzles out before the final credits, making for a rather disappointing thriller.
