Manhunt: Unabomber--Discovery Channel/Netflix [** Spoilers **]

Agent Coulson

A new summer mini series from Discovery I watched the first episode and enjoyed it.

An all star cast including Paul Bettany, Jane Lynch, Sam Worthington, Chris Noth, Michael Nouri & Brian F. O'Byrne.

Mr E

Wow that looks fantastic. Cheers.

Loughc

Is it on Sky? I can't seem to find it on the planner?

Agent Coulson

Loughc wrote: »

Is it on Sky? I can't seem to find it on the planner?

Apologies Brother it's on the US Discovery channel fixed in title.

had a look. first episode was only just scraping ok imo. flashing back in time from after the bomber was caught to before during the investigation. not sure why the Sam Worthington profiler agent is claiming to have caught him in the show. The guy's brother basically turned him in.

expectationlost

Agent Coulson wrote: »

A new summer mini series from Discovery I watched the first episode and enjoyed it.

An all star cast including Paul Bettany, Jane Lynch, Sam Worthington, Chris Noth, Michael Nouri & Brian F. O'Byrne.

seems way overblown

expectationlost

glasso wrote: »

had a look. first episode was only just scraping ok imo. flashing back in time from after the bomber was caught to before during the investigation. not sure why the Sam Worthington profiler agent is claiming to have caught him in the show. The guy's brother basically turned him in.

was watching a interview with jane lynch where she acknowledged that.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt:_Unabomber

• Sam Worthington as Jim Fitzgerald
• Paul Bettany as Ted Kaczynski
• Brían F. O'Byrne as Frank McAlpine
• Ben Weber as Andy Genelli
• Chris Noth as Don Ackerman
• Jane Lynch as Janet Reno

Just finished the first episode - well made with a good cast.

Worth a watch.

Mr E

Threads merged.

Loughc

Any indication of this coming to UK/Ireland TV, I'd be interested in giving it a shot.

Agent Coulson

Loughc wrote: »

Any indication of this coming to UK/Ireland TV, I'd be interested in giving it a shot.

Discovery UK Picks Up Unabomber Drama ‘Manhunt’ but no date for when they will air it.

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2017/03/discovery-uk-picks-unabomber-drama-manhunt/

Loughc

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Discovery UK Picks Up Unabomber Drama ‘Manhunt’ but no date for when they will air it.

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2017/03/discovery-uk-picks-unabomber-drama-manhunt/

Ah perfect! Thank you, time to play the waiting game on it so. I'll add it to my watchlist.

ButtersSuki

On Netflix right now, an 8 parter starring Sam Worthington, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Bobb, Chris Noth amongst others (Brían F. O'Byrne appears in a few episodes too). I found it very uneven insofar as it starts off strongly, but fades pretty quickly. Had a real TV-movie feel to it. Good performances from Bobb (in particular), Bettany, and Noth but what was most disappointing however

is the amount of poetic licence they brought to the story - staying true to the original version would likely have served this better

. 5/10.

It was good but, as I said in the Netflix thread, there were too many cliched "Eureka!" moments, with Worthington running off when he figures something off.

Mr E

Mod: Threads Merged.

jack presley

It was ok I thought and you have to expect some poetic licence in these kind of things but I was surprised to learn

that Fitz and yer man never met so that whole bit about trying to convince him to plead guilty was all made up.

Pelvis

glasso wrote: »

had a look. first episode was only just scraping ok imo. flashing back in time from after the bomber was caught to before during the investigation. not sure why the Sam Worthington profiler agent is claiming to have caught him in the show. The guy's brother basically turned him in.

Watch the rest of it and you'll find out why.


I thought it was a decent enough show tbh. Shame to hear it diverged greatly from the actual story.

The Black Oil

Enjoyed this, particularly Paul Bettany - wouldn't have recognised him only for the credits. In real life, Fitzgerald (FBI agent) was also a producer here. If I have a criticism, it's that the show relied on Fitzgerald having a eureka breakthrough moment perhaps too regularly (as noted above), even if he was a once a generation type of profiler. Did they contrast the Unabomber and Fitz - both highly intelligent, troubled, obsessive, etc. FBI itself was highly resistant to change, not sure how accurate this was. Institutions can be very much so.

TheSheriff

Finished this today - well worth a watch in my opinion.

steve_r

Yeah think I'm pretty much on the same page as everyone else here.

Thought it was gripping

but too much poetic licence and in the second half becomes very tv-movieish

Thought the two leads were excellent

De Bhál

I'm 6 out of the 8 in and really enjoy it. I don't know anything really about the real story, so that probably helped.
I do agree about the amount of Eureka moments Worthington has. Too many. Still he's excellent.

Sugarlumps

Bit long winded, Worthinghton - truly unlikable character. Bettany smashed it.

Agent Coulson

The latest show to be turned into an anthology series.

Season two will be called Manhunt: Lone Wolf.

Manhunt: Lone Wolf, will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil — the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph

https://deadline.com/2019/09/manhunt-lone-wolf-casts-brad-william-henke-tim-johnson-jr-ballers-1202714084/

Agent Coulson

Link to season 2 thread.

‘Manhunt: Deadly Games’