Reprisal - Hulu Original (**Spoilers**)

Agent Coulson

This looks like it will be fun.

She's coming to collect. Reprisal is a hyper-noir story that follows a relentless femme fatale who, after being left for dead, sets out to take revenge against her brother and his bombastic gang of gearheads. Reprisal premieres December 6 on Hulu.

pixelburp

That looks incredibly pulp & trashy, in a good way; wonder if it'll maintain that strong neon, noir'ish style throughout.

Slydice

The show feels a little wierd 2 ways. The first is how clean it feels.. the second being the strange think at the North Pole?

1: Well I guess the plan in front of the audience is that she's gonna take care of Big Graham in Detroit (is it?) and then go down south and take out or take over the Big Brawlers.

Agent Coulson

I'm about halfway through it and I'm liking it.

It's not as frenetic as I was expecting from the trailer the set up for the revenge is paced out so far.


I love the clash of styles in it.


And Abigail Spencer is looking seriously hot in each episode.

Slydice

2: This was an improvement. Some grittyness in the bowling alley is suggesting different levels of money in the different groups. Also gets more into her goal which appears to just be to kill the unseen Burt and the seen Bash. I wonder what the story with Burt is.

Slydice

3: Hoooo boy... well I guess that leaves Bolo free to come back to Mindhunters as Brudos!

Slydice

4: Molly! :eek:

Slydice

5: :eek:

Mr E

What's the verdict so far, Slydice?

pixelburp

What's the tone of this thing versus the trailers? Cos it looked very trashy and like an exploitation thriller from its promotions...

Slydice

I've not watched Sons of Anarchy so I don't know how it compares but this gang seems to be about modified classic cars.. I don't know if that's a thing but I'm going with it to see where it goes.. the car stuff is secondary so far to their money making (illegal stuffs) business.

It's keeping the world it is in mostly separate from a more real world feel. So then that leave just the story it's trying to tell about it's world from what I can see.

It's consistently violent at a level probably around or just under Banshee. It's not as gritty as Banshee though. It kinda feels polished and clean. Then it has these shock plot moments I've been doing the :eek: at.

Abigail Spencer (and the plot) is doing a good job as Doris. There's still a sense of mystery as to where she's gonna end up. It could well be just as simple as

she's gonna kill her two targets Bash and Burt

and that's all though.. which would not have been a mystery at all.

Agent Coulson

Finished it this evening and stand by it not being as frenetic as the trailer hints at it.

It is a slow build revenge triller with lots of violence and highly enjoyable.


Abigail Spencer is a complete standout and so watchable when on screen.

Slydice

6: Well! :eek:

The show built that up really well.

The relationship between Meredith and Gertrude (I think?) seemed really solid. Like in the last few seconds they signposted the betrayal but still..

This continuous reference to the Archipelago is catching my curiousity.

Also the Ghouls seem to be at or below the level of Star Wars stormtroopers.

Slydice

7: ah that was a bit much..

killin so many of the brawlers and barely getting touched.

ejmaztec

Well, it looks like the next series will be several episodes of an almighty punchup with Ron Perlman and his gang

Slydice

8: Felt mostly like a build up episode. Put pieces into place for the last two episodes to have a showdown.

Molly at the end!

Slydice

9: Well, that's Bash done. Unless Burt or Queenie can pull a rabbit from their hat, I'm guessing they'll be done too.

That ominious thing in the arctic again!

Slydice

10:

Fair enough like .. once she had the gun out, he had to die. Matty punching up Ethan..

yeah made sense.. kinda.

Seasob finished! Solid! Roll on season 2. I still don't get the motors
Yeah Abigail Spencer did grand but others did too.

Madison Davenport as Meredith played a fine-line role really well.
Mena Massoud as Ethan did well too and reminds me I still have to watch Aladdin
Craig Tate as Earl and Bethany Anne Lind as Molly were solid.

Rhys Wakefield as Matty brought depth to his character
Lea DeLaria as Queenie was just boss
Can't forget Blake Perlman as Gertrude. She did well with what she was given.


Special mention for David Dastmalchian as Johnson. He really brought his character alive. Real don't touch me vibes.
I see he's set for Dune as Piter De Vries:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2810287/
He'll do that well I reckon. Worked with Villeneuve before on Bladerunner 2049:

Could be a thing into the future.


Final thoughts: WTAF with the Arctic?!!? Also never found out more about that dodgy hotel room with the bright lights early on in the season. Also the war they kept talking about.

Slydice

critics a fair bit off of the audience:

cdgalwegian

I've watched the first 4; didn't get much of a neo-noir feel, more of a neon-retro one. It's pacing and storytelling is a bit all over the place, but there's enough style and substance in the 'style-over substance' label here to carry on. There's some really good scenes in here that helps offset a lot of cliches.
Abigail Spencer was very good in Rectify, but she really shows her versatility here.

cdgalwegian

Finished the series, and although it felt 'unrealistic', the storyline and characters always seemed just enough to keep me interested- particularly as i was invested in following Abigail Spencer's character- finding her continual highs and lows (wins and losses) an interesting unconventional narrative. The final episode was great; justifying keeping up with the series' faults.
One thing that had an odd feel- adding to the unrealistic flavour- was the references to the Archipelago war, which made me feel the whole thing was either simply fantasy, or an alternate history; either way, this strangely gave more depth to it. Enough, given the great ending, that I'm looking forward to a second series, as there seems more to what's happening than at first blush.

Skerries

I can't a bead on the timeline that this is supposed to be set and that is intentional I'd say

they talk about the archipelago as happening in '37
the cars are from the 50's to the 70's
the tv's are 50's or 60's
but the mobile phones are early noughties

Slydice

Skerries wrote: »

I can't a bead on the timeline that this is supposed to be set and that is intentional I'd say

they talk about the archipelago as happening in '37
the cars are from the 50's to the 70's
the tv's are 50's or 60's
but the mobile phones are early noughties

I think ... _THINK_ and it's only a guess ... that it's an Alternative Universe