Yeah but that was a movie. It's way shorter than 8 hours.

With this show, it's 8 hours on top of coordinating actors from different countries (UK, US, Sweden, Russia, Germany). I don't even know if anyone was Czech lol.

I mean, if you paid attention to the boring stuff in international affairs and not just follow whatever is trending on Reddit or Twitter ("Oh Amerikkka warmonger, hurr durr CIA and 5 Eyez bad, RuSsIA nOt iNvaDing U just wAnT uS to obEy the eLiTes!"), you'd find that security analysts have been quite concerned about Russian activity being on the rise for years now. This show is just taking what's already in place and riffing off of it.

For example, someone like Peter Zeihan, who is more of a 'pop' geopolitical analyst, even correctly predicted 2022 as the invasion year back in 2014ish due to this year being likely the last year before Russia's male population began declining. They're all in, at this point, and probably are willing to throw a few hundred thousand men away.

In that time, Russia's been releasing material about how the Ukrainian identity is tied to the Russian identity and how they needed to be together as one identity. Just go out and read what actually gets put in document and you'll find that this war and Russia's list of justifications aren't too surprising.

It's good. Better than S2.

Do feel they need to take Ryan back to being an analyst, though. Have him figure stuff out, have it lead to a military strike, have the bad guys come after him once his identity is revealed, have him figure more things out, have him leave the CIA and run for Congress.

I don't think many of the actors were Czech. Some of the Russians weren't Russian.

I remember him punching that fire extinguisher. Guy has some anger issues.

I mean, he wanted to make that Robocop film match Narcos and his Tropa de Elite movies (those films are brutal btw). Gritty realism and extreme violence, social themes, and cops versus criminals are things he has long explored well. In typical Hollywood fashion, the studio execs stamped down on Robocop, much to his frustration.

Opinion: HoD and RoP both use writers and showrunners. One of them does it better.