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title = "Treadstone (2019)"
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date = 2020-11-17
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["series", "reviews", "jason bourne", "stars:1"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8289480/):
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The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its
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attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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I have no idea who the hell watched [The Bourne
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Identity](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/) and thought the cool part
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wasn't Bourne/Matt Damon lightning reflexes or his uncanny ability to find an
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escape, but actually the bureaucracy that created him. Probably Barney
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Stinson[^1].
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In a way, the series was doomed by its own format: While in a movie the actors
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can film the "easy" scenes first while they train to do the most action heavy
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scenes, in a series they don't have that luxury: This is the episode, and this
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is what it will happen. There is no time for practicing some martial art or
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take time training the movements in a scene over and over; there is very little
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time between episodes and even littler time for this kind of stuff.
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That's not to say that there isn't any action; there is. But is far away from
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Damon's character kicking ass with a magazine.
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So, the only remaining thing is the bureau and its problem. And that is a
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complete drag, not even making it interesting in a mystery kind of way.
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Unexpected things are happening, but the bureau moves in the pace of, well,
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bureaucracy.
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There is a cliffhanger in the end of the only season, and it is not even good.
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[^1]: For those who haven't seen "[How I Met Your
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Mother](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother)", there was a
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running gag in which the character played by Neil Patrick Harris named
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"Barney" would say that the real "Karate Kid" was the blonde kid played by
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William Zabka, and that the character played by Ralph Macchio was, actually,
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the bad guy.
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