Recommendation: Patriot / Perpetual Grace, LTD
#Patriot# is a show about a covert spy dude from the u.s. who is very depressed, and a quiet folk singer, and unusually adept at violence. His task is to get hired undercover at a Milwaukee industrial piping firm so he can do spy shit in Luxembourg and Iran. They managed two 10-episode story arcs out of this, and I love it.
Fantastic ensemble cast, fantastic writing, fantastic cinematography, fantastic soundtrack, often annoyingly quirky in silly ways, and dark because the characters’ actions have consequences.
also, Terry O’Quinn (Lost) in this is calm and weird and creepy.
#Perpetual Grace, LTD# Classic pastiche of scammers screwing up in a silly, morbid scheme in a lot of pretentious, but well-done, acting and noir-ish cinematography.
edit forgot to add: Jimmi Simpson, aka Liam McPoyle from It’s Always Sunny, is the lead
Cut from the same insanity as Patriot, with many of the same creators and actors. A bit more annoyingly quirky. If you don’t like Patriot, you probably won’t like this.
if you remember, a criticism of Breaking Bad was that scenes in Mexico were always kinda sepia-toned… this just has weird tones, sometimes in Mexico.
Both have Steven Conrad as one of the principal creators/writers/directors, or some combination thereof. He wrote Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which is even more silly, but not too far off.
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