Having created super-spy Jason Bourne, the Treadstone project turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.Having created super-spy Jason Bourne, the Treadstone project turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.Having created super-spy Jason Bourne, the Treadstone project turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
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- TriviaThis series was originally being developed at CBS by Anthony E. Zuiker in 2010, but it was shut down at the insistence of Tony Gilroy, who was gearing up to direct The Bourne Legacy (2012) and did not want another Bourne project competing with his film.
- ConnectionsSpin-off from The Bourne Identity (2002)
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This series had potential but really disappoints. They blew it by trying to cram little snippets of each plot thread into every single episode. It didn't give you any space to connect emotionally with the different characters.
That's what made the original Bourne movies work. It wasn't so much about the spy stuff or the fighting, something this show seems to misunderstand as it serves up gratuitous amounts of pointless hand-to-hand combat to the point of boring predictability. It was about our emotional investment in the tortured man and his story.
This show just doesn't give us any characters worth caring about. A more episodic format-with each episode focused on a particular character-could have worked better in this regard, but the the writing and acting quality would have needed to be turned up a few notches as well. As it is, Treadstone feels like B-grade Jason Bourne fan fiction, and I totally lost interest three episodes in.
That's what made the original Bourne movies work. It wasn't so much about the spy stuff or the fighting, something this show seems to misunderstand as it serves up gratuitous amounts of pointless hand-to-hand combat to the point of boring predictability. It was about our emotional investment in the tortured man and his story.
This show just doesn't give us any characters worth caring about. A more episodic format-with each episode focused on a particular character-could have worked better in this regard, but the the writing and acting quality would have needed to be turned up a few notches as well. As it is, Treadstone feels like B-grade Jason Bourne fan fiction, and I totally lost interest three episodes in.
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- chris-90682
- May 26, 2020
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