re: The Terminal List Season 2 Official Thread

Old Dickon sure has changed.

Getting your shite ripped off with a piano wire seems like a rather unpleasant experience.

I'm guessing there will be a third season.

Surprised by the season 2 was a step down comments, I thought the season was great.

Dang. Casting for Freddy is great. It’s been a great season

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Loved season 2

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About the only nits I could pick are that Katie is mediocre casting (not bad, just not nailed like most of the cast) and they need to further limit Keith Jardine's lines if he appears in the future. I like the idea of a real tough guy playing a tough guy but man, his line delivery is rough. Acting looks easy sometimes but then you see a regular joe try it.

*Possible spoiler*
Oh, and Freddy should have hauled arse to another spot as soon as he saw that beacon. He would have had a huge advantage from a location 30-40 yards away. I don't remember how closely those details track the book.

I agree with the Katie miscasting. Not even close to what I imagined when reading the books.

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Season 2 was significantly worse than season 1. Very disappointing.

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Die hard Jack Carr fan. Usually finish the books within a couple days of them coming out and I agree with this. Will definitely stick with the show but S2 was a step down from S1. I found the books to be opposite.

And I like Pratt but some of his delivery and banter was a bit on the cheesy side this season. Didnt see that in S1.

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I haven't read the books.

It's kind of tough to say things improved or not... season 1 was a bit feeling it out, and you spent a lot of the early episodes with the hallucinations etc. Which they showed onscreen. So if you didn't read the book and know the story, it's a little unclear what exactly is going on, or even what type of show it is. Is he nuts, is it supernatural, etc. That sorts out by the MRI, but it makes it just a bit more complex early on.
Then it goes on a string of hits (his list), where we are introduced to the next guy on the list, and Reece tracks them down and kills them.
You have the fantastic interaction with Ben Edwards, only for the twist in the finale to happen.

In a lot of ways, Dark Wolf is better, because it's a clean storyline of Ben's removal from the Teams, the CIA/Mossad plot, and the wrapup of the Sheperd and Haliford. Doesn't twist around a lot or go off course, actually a GREAT extended spy thriller. But of course, it's not James Reece storyline.

So TL season 2 isn't maybe as clean as DW, but it's building to a bigger story (more seasons). DW, I think, is done. It served it's purpose, giving us a good Ben Edwards tale, and introducing a lot of the other characters. Wasn't Ben recruited by Freddy at the end?

And a big part of the show/universe is how well they are portraying some of the side characters. I really liked Freddy in this season, Ben in season 1, even Ish and the Mossad chick in DW. The way they're building things, you really don't know who's going to stick around and who's not.

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In a lot of ways, Dark Wolf is better, because it's a clean storyline

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I think one reason is that it was never anything but a screenplay, it wasn't adopted from a book series like TL.

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True enough.

I guess the hallucinations and headaches may play out better in a book.

I think with season 2, things kind of sped up halfway through. It was pretty thorough, and then about the time he goes to see Mo, he comes back and says "Landry is the guy"... and we start getting things without a lot to back it up or confirm it. It's not bad, just less time spent on that stuff. Whereas in DW, we still get deep dives later in the series, with Raife and the German dude, the team tracking Haverford, etc. It takes awhile for Ben to decide whether to believe the Mossad chick. We don't get that "time to consider and decide" much in TL season 2, past the midpoint.

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was a good season and I am looking forward to a season 3

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Definitely, me too

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Its been a while but I am seem to also remember season 1 being the better of the two seasons

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yeah, I'm kinda in agreement with you here. All three seasons (counting Dark Wolf) have a little bit different dynamics.

Season 1, you had the hallucinations dominating the early episodes, and a hint of mystery as to wtf was even happening. I think that sort of detracted, then we knew what was up, and he started going down the list and killing off each person. It was a bit weird, then became a brutal and impressive revenge "I'm coming for you" show where he was unstoppable.
We did have the side-plot with the reporter, which kind of changed the pace at times. I felt like the best part of Season 1 was the later (but not last) episodes where he worked with Ben Edwards.

Dark Wolf did not focus on Reece, only a couple cameos. Was Ben and some Raife, with the SEAL Team and then the spy mission. I felt that was really, really clean and good all the way through. Probably the best continuity of episodes and storyline from start to finish, high intensity throughout.
No reporter side plot.

Season 2, a couple episodes of Reece adrift and the reporter's tale again. I thought it picked up when he paired with Freddy (they were good together). Reporter and Raife sideplot, which started to merge with main plot, was also good. Not sure I really liked the reporter plot as much, Raife's was good.
It seemed a bit rushed in the middle of the season- we are hunting for Mo, then suddenly we all accept it's Landry in like a minute's worth of screen time. I felt like that could have been hashed out a bit more, as it seemed like they mostly took Mo's word without much else (and Mo did blow up the NATO general, so do you REALLY trust his word?).
And the reporter/Ukraine businessman story seemed a bit blah.

The action remains great. I think if you can follow the technical aspect of Dark Wolf, in terms of how they film and present the story, it would be the best viewing manner.

I watched s2 this weekend. It started off a little slow and seemed to lack direction, but it picked up quickly. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I will never look at piano wire the same ever again though.