Treadstone

The Cicada Covenant

Treadstone's plots are all over the place.  Treadstone Season 1 Episode 10 -- the season finale -- had a tall task ahead of it: It had to give resolution to the central plots.  It failed miserably.  Instead of getting resolution, we got set-up for Treadstone Season 2 by jumping from character to character after a meager few scenes with each of the characters we've traveled this journey with so far.  Fakeout deaths generally don't go down well wi... more

The Seoul Asylum

That was disappointing.  Treadstone Season 1 Episode 9 slipped back into the style over substance way of storytelling, leading me to believe the Treadstone Season 1 finale is not going to offer a satisfying conclusion.  Storytelling has been Treadstone's detriment since the get-go. It's nice to have well-choreographed fight scenes and visually stunning action sequences, but they also need to advance the story for all of that to feel worthwhile.  The Tara re... more

The McKenna Erasure

Maybe Treadstone isn't going to be a colossal waste of time after all.  Treadstone Season 1 Episode 8 was a decent hour that began setting up a conclusion.  Instead of keeping the characters apart on their plot strands that could be used on any other action show, the storylines are starting to mesh.  Is it too late in the game? Probably, but if we get some semblance of a satisfying conclusion during the final two episodes, then I'll call it a win.  more

TV Review: 'Treadstone'

“Treadstone,” which begins in East Berlin in 1973 and zooms ahead to multiple locations in the present day, is, we’re told in its credits, “based on an organization from the Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum.” The description seems apt, in its clunky way. The Treadstone more