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There was a show on Amazon a few years ago called Patriot about the misfortunes of a CIA operative with hardly any support from the agency. An interesting part
by adamomada 2y ago
There was a show on Amazon a few years ago called Patriot about the misfortunes of a CIA operative with hardly any support from the agency. An interesting part was that even though he used a blackberry, arguably having better e2e messaging than today, the comms were done through some online scrabble game.
- somenameforme 2y agoYeah it seems like that show's gone full Hollywood with other takes like "Leslie pull[s] his teeth to bypass facial recognition software" according to Wiki. [1] The fact facial recognition doesn't use your teeth and can be fooled using simple makeup or prosthetics to manipulate the perceived depth of your face? Nah, screw it - just pull your teeth mate! [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series)
- voltaireodactyl 2y agoIf you haven’t seen it, Patriot is fabulous and clearly has little to no interest in portraying anything close to objective reality, but instead conveys a subjective experience with just enough jargon and cartoon-intuitively-correct techniques (eg “The Vantasner Danger Meridian”) to tether it down and give some genre structure to the real narrative (John’s emotional journey toward finding his own identity outside of his family and his work). Even if one pressed play expecting Carre or The Wire, I imagine by the time the main character finds himself slow-motion dog-piled under 5 Brazilian jujitsu experts who are brothers and dress identically (after just such a scenario was lightly foreshadowed several scenes before), viewers might realize they’ve walked into something unexpected (and imo magical). It’s not about the way things work — it’s about the way life feels.