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Kumbackkid t1_j1sexnj wrote

Reply to comment by kekitsmeomgwtfsrsly in Question regarding Netflix's Treason for anyone that's seen it by supahfly112

The wife is legit crazy I’m on the second episode not sure if I want to continue. The stupid decision making by people we are supposed to believe are top of their craft is bonkers so far

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freedomachiever t1_j1ucblp wrote

I literally came to Reddit to see if people thought the same thing. How can the wife of an MI6 agent and she herself being a relatively high ranked military be so infuriatingly naive. Ifelt asleep and woke up in ep4.

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Emotional_Bridge_344 t1_j1w5hwd wrote

She’s like “why doesn’t he tell me things and he’s saying names of people I’ve never heard of so he must be cheating on me or something”….uhhhhh maybe your husband is the head of MI6 you dumb c*nt

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ThrowawayTrashInACan t1_j1win2a wrote

"oh my husband had a private phone call let me commit treason by recording a phone call made by the chief of the country's secret service and send to a foreign intelligence agency"

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evade26 t1_j1wg7qy wrote

Yeah why is the wife of the top spy in Britain upset when her spy husband does spy shit.

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lax01 t1_j1xqi1c wrote

Lol this - this exactly - and like immediately resorts to spying on him and telling the CIA everything? Nobody is that dumb - nobody

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evade26 t1_j1xr20f wrote

If they dropped the whole paranoid wife routine about an affair or being complicit in the kidnapping g or whatever and just had the COA approach her and flip her as an asset with the same logic that they used in the show it would have been way more convincing.

I dropped it after episode 2 to start season 3 of Jack Ryan. At least that spy show treats stupid spy shit like it is.

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lax01 t1_j1xrzbe wrote

Switching to Witcher Blood Origin - not switching back

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martusfine t1_j2bg00j wrote

It’s akin to ghost hunters getting all scared when “finding” ghosts on those reality shows- the writing is shit.

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Calm-Grocery-664 t1_j1xd4mp wrote

Yeah - and goes so far as to actually spy on his top secret calls, and tail him in a van with a foreign spy agency (the CIA)???? Like…what???

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thedayisminetrebek t1_j1y09gy wrote

It would be one thing if she did not know what he does but she is fully aware of what he does and the fact that there is an ongoing intelligence operation. Her entire plotline could end with him saying "She's an asset that is being worked with potential information regarding the assassination attempt on my boss"

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LV_orbust t1_j1y9c3x wrote

Yes, if she didn't know what he did, or that her friend was CIA.... that would have made much more sense. But she was a military officer and knows her husband's interim Control. It's completely ridiculous.

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Constant_Ad2016 t1_j1wyexg wrote

Yeesss. I thought I was being mind f****d. She can't be for real...

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Kumbackkid t1_j1ud19c wrote

I stopped after the second and put on Vikings. The wife was so stupid I couldn’t get over it and the cia lady literally came to the house. Not considering the bad accents but even the decisions the new director was making was ridiculous as if he’s still a field agent moving solo while you have one of the deepest intel agencies in the world.

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MasterPlanPenguin t1_j1tlz0e wrote

Don’t. I’m up to episode three and they are seriously so fucking dumb and the wife just gets worse.

I can’t believe the level of stupidity in this show.

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Constant_Ad2016 t1_j1wy5qx wrote

I thought the wife would get worse. Thank you for confirming my drop after episode two!

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lax01 t1_j1xpysy wrote

Think I’m out at 2…this is very bad - who wrote this garbage?

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MasterPlanPenguin t1_j1xqg83 wrote

It gets slightly better as it shifts to slightly more action paced but honestly my brain was switched off for the most part by episode 3.

I only finished it because I did want to see how stupid the whole thing got.

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coilt t1_j1xuiah wrote

lol. that's the best part. an oscar winning writer did.
proving once again the old 'a character is only ever as smart as the person writing it' dogma.

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lax01 t1_j1zlgy2 wrote

haha yikes - but looks like it was also co-written by the Coen Brothers

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coilt t1_j1zuguv wrote

ya, makes you wonder how in the hell he got to be the part of that trio in the first place, considering the quality of his solo material.

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Kumbackkid t1_j1ud52a wrote

I put on Vikings and enjoyed it far more lol

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MasterPlanPenguin t1_j1uefm9 wrote

Good call. It got slightly better with some ok fast paced action, but I might only like this because people stopped talking and so the stupidity of it all wasn’t as noticeable.

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lifegame123 t1_j21chjo wrote

Also it seems to have been given the woke treatment where the male antagonist can't be allowed to be a hero.

The idiot wife becomes the hero of the story. I kid you not.

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Constant_Ad2016 t1_j1wxg6y wrote

My thoughts, exactly. The wife is actually crazy. There's no way her moods or decisions can be connected to logic or reality in any way, and she's SO unlikeable. It's not worth it to continue for us haha

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gopms t1_j2fh26k wrote

The wife, who is a captain in the army and a physiotherapist, is literally the dumbest character I can remember other than people playing actual village idiot types. She thinks her husband is keeping secrets? No shit, he is a spy! That is literally his job! And then she jumps from “he is keeping secrets so I will turn him over the CIA” faster than I figure out what to eat for lunch,

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