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The Sentinel
1996 · TV series · 45 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.
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Having recently watched Sentinel and Jack Ryan, and previously The Expanse and TRoP (it's most certainly not LotR), it looks like Amazon is trying to replicate the same formula over and over:
1. Cliffhangers at the end of each episode. 2. Multiple red herrings and 180 degree turns. 3. One *huge* reveal towards the end. 4. A mixture of grim realism and cynical humour. 5. Dramatic and often extreme action scenes.
It works for some series, and combined with good writing/acting/directing can result in a solid product (see Jack Ryan, The Expanse); but in other cases it either fails with bad filmmaking (see Sentinel), or simply doesn't fit the underlying material (see TRoP).