Deep State (TV Series) Blood in the Sand (2018) User Reviews

Smart for the most part

[jsommers-893-70788 · 8/10 · 13 April 2020]

This is a rather clever spy story, must more subtle than the Jack Ryan series. Lots of twists and turns with an interesting emphasis on the personal effects of the spy game on the spies. Mark Strong is subtle and terrific in the lead role. Also outstanding is the young French actress who plays his 9-year-old daughter. The wrap is not the usual James Bond/Jack Ryan racing through explosions. It's much more subtle and cynical and entirely appropriate to the story being told. Yes, there are some plot holes (people travel from continent to continent about as rapidly as the Game or Thrones characters without benefit of dragon flight; characters recover from severe wounds remarkably quickly), but the series was engrossing throughout.

Big build up tiny overture

[sharonphoenix · 5/10 · 25 May 2018]

What I hate watching is a fairly good drama with a big big build up and then a damp squib of an ending. No Big Bang the match just fizzled out. Blame Fox. If there is a second series count me out!

It was going quite well till the last two episodes

[namstonk · 2/10 · 18 January 2021]

Ludicrous events, reasoning, logic etc. Clearly the script needed filling to achieve contract fulfilment and boy do you know. Subsequently, conclusions and assumptions are fitted in to fill the holes as they go along.