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A thrilling, pacy, well-acted drama: Amazon Prime’s The Terminal List reviewed

This series belongs to my favourite of all genres: the paranoid conspiracy thriller

Chris Pratt, as James Reece, is a lot more gritty and serious in Terminal List than in Guardians of the Galaxy. Image: Courtesy of Prime Video
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‘The Terminal List is… a dated and drably made eight-part military thriller that offers little intrigue or excitement,’ says the Guardian’s ‘east coast arts editor’ in a corrosive one-star review. Eh? Can we have been watching the same series? Let me give you an example of this ‘little intrigue or excitement’ and allow you to judge for yourself.

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