Patriot
Patriot Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 8.5 | 8.6 | |
| S2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.7 |
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"Espionage as slow-motion bureaucratic humiliation"
Patriot follows John Tavner, a weary intelligence officer whose latest cover job is a low-level position at an industrial piping company in the American Midwest, all while he's secretly ferrying suitcases of cash to influence a foreign election. It's a deadpan, melancholy spy story where the missions keep going wrong in absurd, cringe-inducing ways, and John copes by writing painfully literal folk songs about his trauma. The tone is dry, patient, and strange, closer to a mumblecore comedy than a thriller, and it rewards viewers who enjoy discomfort and understatement.
the deadpan absurdism of a spy unraveling through his own terrible folk songs.
you need fast plotting or conventional thriller stakes rather than dry, patient discomfort.
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