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Patriot
2015 · TV series · 2 seasons
Created by Steven Conrad
To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
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HACF is a goodie but there's a lot of great shows no one's heard of.
In an effort to sing the song of underappreciated works of greatness...
Patriot - a CIA hitman who writes folk songs about his exploits imdb.com/title/tt4687882/
Counterpart - not a multiverse, just a biverse imdb.com/title/tt4643084/
Scavengers Reign - Robinson Crusoe by way of a nature documentary of a very bizarre alien planet. imdb.com/title/tt21056886/
Common Side Effects - cops, robbers, magic mushrooms, corporate bad guys and the cure for everything. imdb.com/title/tt28093628
Evil - x-files meets Catholic mysticism. imdb.com/title/tt9055008/
The Heat Vision and Jack pilot episode - Jack Black, Owen Wilson and a script by Dan Harmon. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWgXDOAJ5s&pp=ygUUaGVhdCB2aXNpb24gYW5kIGphY2s%3D
Patriot is unlike anything else. Magical in a way it worked.
The same crew made another show and I couldn’t get past 2 episodes.
Patriot was really a celestial event in the world of TV
"Patriot" (on Amazon Prime) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4687882/
Criminally underrated. If you enjoy older Guy Ritchie films or In Bruges, do yourself a favor and watch it.
Also thematically similar, re: alienation and disassociation!
I did not expect to see a Patriot reference online today, thank you for making my day.
For others, Patriot is a dark comedy TV show available on Amazon. I highly recommend it.
Your comment about your pal just reminded me of "The Integral Principles of the Structural Dynamics of Flow", an fictional technical book used as a plot device in the Patriot TV series.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687882
They even created a one season podcast read by the fictional author, Leslie G Claret, who's played by the actor Kurtwood Smith.
Does your pal really work as a chemical engineer ;)
I'm reminded of the brilliant confessional opening song for the television series Patriot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZJbwkYa4pk
I didn't find the rest of the series to live up to the brilliance of that song, but the song is worth a listen. It's a hyper specific folk song confession of a US young government hit man explaining why he accidentally killed an Iranian hotel maid. It's good to know that things like this would no longer qualify as evidence!
This is a quote from TV show Patriot. Spy embeds into O&G equipment company and has to learn the process.
Yeah smaller budget Amazon was amazing Patriot is still one of the best TV shows ever There was a glimpse of those glory days with “outlaws” though
It's probably just a job. Some Amazon executive says, "Hey, can you write us some Lord of the Rings episodes for X dollars?" Writer says, "Sure." I don't think hubris enters into it, the same way that construction workers don't usually compare their output to the Roman Colosseum.
I also don't think that the Tolkien universe is somehow sacrosanct. If the show sucks, then it sucks - it doesn't take away from the original writing. There's plenty of bad media based on the Tolkien books as well as endless merchandise and other cash grabs. There's even a Gandalf Funko POP[1], for goodness sakes.
It would be great if the show was good though. We'll see. As others have mentioned, Amazon studios seems to have pretty poor taste and produce a lot of crap. Though Patriot is quite excellent.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Funko-Movies-Gandalf-Action-Figure/dp/B06XGG6PLW
The "pipe fittings" reminds me of the first season of "Patriot", an Amazon Prime show whose first season was excellent, a spy/engineering thriller (I only watched the first two episodes of season two, not sure whether it's good or not, seemed weak by comparison).
In any case, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A "'Patriot' Piping Lingo, The McMillan Way (Amazon Prime)", where a seasoned CEO / engineer talks about pipe fittings at length. I'm sure software/devops engineers sound just as obtuse to those not familiar with software.
> When Netflix comes out with a new show I won't watch it until it gets into a third season.
Why can't you just enjoy a one or two well done seasons? Season 1 of Barry on HBO was basically a perfect story. Season 2 wasn't terrible, but it was stretched and didn't really add to what had been a perfect capsule. Patriot on Amazon, was also a brilliantly plotted two season arc, and though I love the characters I admit to push it to another season would be to take away from it not to add.
I just started binge-watching a tv show called Patriot (unexpectedly hilarious, if dark, spy comedy). There was one throwaway remark about how a spy handler would find an unlocated mark:
> We have this principle we use when we're trying to locate someone who doesn't want to be discovered.
> You are what you can't stop doing.
> What that means is if we discover what someone is passionate about, then that person and that thing will intersect. Passion involves compulsion. And people, all people, have compulsions that draw them away from their safety and their best interests. People and what they love don't always intersect. People and their compulsions do. And John, well, he's compelled toward you. He's crazy about you.
And it's a quote I have a hard time not thinking about, ironically..
FWIW Amazon Prime has been brutal about VPNs over the last few years, at least the ones I've tried. I'm still a Prime customer but even some Prime Originals can't be viewed in Europe and I haven't had much success with the standard (paid) VPN experience.
Apple, on the other hand, is happy to sell me anything from the US store and let me download or stream it anywhere in the EU when I'm there.
I imagine people affected by this make up a negligible part of the market, but I find it a compelling differentiator. Not that I'd give up Prime... in addition to the whole "ship to nowheresville" thing, Patriot[0] bought them this cinephile's loyalty for at least a few years.
[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687882/
Off the top of my head: Succession, VEEP, Barry, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects, True Detective (seasons 1 & 3), Chernobyl.
Big Little Lies was probably the worst of that bunch, and is still lightyears ahead of any recent Netflix drama.
On Prime, The Man in the High Castle is a guilty pleasure despite its flaws. The bizarre spy drama Patriot is absolutely excellent.
I like that with Prime, I can subscribe to HBO within the app, and also buy seasons of some cable shows, like FX’s Legion, Fargo, What We Do in the Shadows.
I prefer that experience much more than Netflix. With Netflix, the original content has to be so good that it offsets the lack of being able to purchase non-Netflix content, and frankly Netflix originals have just not been good enough to cut it for a while.
There isn't much confusion at all if you don't have any filters then it's clearly marked on the thumbnail of the video. When you search you can select filters. Depending on the app you use (browser, amazon firetv, mobile, smart tv etc.) you also (at least on my browser, phone and tv) select in the settings to filter out paid content.
Amazon has damn good originals: Alpha House(please make season 3!!!), Hand of God, Bosch, Mozart in the Jungle and TMITHC as well as some of it's new pickups like Sneaky Pete and Patriot (the Patriot pilot and premise was amazing) are much better than most Netflix offers(which for the most part offers allot of esoteric comedy / stand up shows and well orange is the new black which I've never bothered to watch). At least to my subjective tastes before the Marvel ("webinatic universe?!") shows came about Netflix only had The House of Cards (and well Marco Polo) as far as originals go.