SpecificAstronaut69 t1_j1xw79w wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:08 AM

Reply to comment by VitaLonga in Just finished watching Treason. What absolute garbage and a bloody waste of time. by SonOfThomasWayne

"Hmmm. How do we come up with series of compelling challenges for our main character to overcome that will keep viewers engaged?"

"How about we just make them really stupid?"

LeGoldie t1_j207l8d wrote on December 28, 2022 at 6:36 PM

So much on netflix and tv in general in recent years main plot devices are people doing unexplainably dumb shit.

yazzy1233 t1_j23vend wrote on December 29, 2022 at 1:49 PM

Watch The Recruit. The main character is actually smart he's just young and a bit reckless. It's about a lawyer in the CIA who gets in way over his head with a case

alquemista_ t1_j265yl0 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 11:03 PM

I disagree. He was stupid and pathetic. He had no basic survival instinct and did silly things like showing up to a black-site unannounced to ask questions.