The first episode has plenty of promise, and enough good ideas to keep you engaged, but a couple more in and it feels like all of the good will has been lost, and all the opportunities to do something interesting and propulsive with the show have been abandoned. Max Irons was hardly a Bourne-style action hero, but he was a pretty good nerdy analyst on-the-run (a hell of a lot better than Krasinski's Jack Ryan, who soon devolved into Bond), but he's way out of his depth here, called upon to follow the hopscotch of the plot with its commensurate emotional arc, never really convincing as a man interested in revenge, retribution, or anything else really. Season 2 gets utterly confused by its own convoluted plotting And the tense escort of a wanted spy could have propelled the action into a desperate pursuit, but Condor isn't really interested in capitalising on any of these jumping-off points, instead skipping around all over the place as it introduces new characters, then twists those around until you're not sure which way is up. An attack and theft of documents could have done more than ruffle a few feathers, but that would undo later revelations. The death of someone close could spark some momentum borne from a quest for revenge, but that would be too simple. Unfortunately Season 2 struggles to live up to them, kick-starting with an intriguing enough - if done to death - premise, before getting utterly consumed by its own convoluted plotting, robbing the show of any kind of sustained momentum. The first season really ended pretty perfectly, so if Condor had been cancelled then, it wouldn't have been the end of the world, but after such a good opening salvo, bringing it back for a sophomore year also brought with it some understandable expectations of quality and purpose.
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