If you went on Prime Video In recent days, you have been able to dodge it. Except to have a subscription without advertising, of course. There is not an advertising break from a program of the streaming platform without the same sentences being repeated: “You can’t continue like this”, “You have to stop it”etc. good if you are even less lucky, it’s the trailer for The Pickup that runs in a loop. In the meantime, the teaser of Butterfly is everywhere.
A promotional campaign, at least within the SVOD service, which seems to bear fruit since the series led by Naelel isn’t (Lost, Hawaii 5-0, Good Doctor…) Is today in The top 3 of the most viewed programs of Prime Video programsonly a few days after its online. Except to say that the classification is tampered with and that the algorithm is designed to highlight the new features. Whatever, the strategy has done its office and we hit the Six episodes of season 1just to know if she could continue like this.
Butterfly’s story
Adapted from an Arash Amel comics, Butterfly Immerse us in a karaoke where David (Dae Kim), round like a shovel tail, disappears from his band of friends after a frenzied recovery. But David is not drunk, it is An ex -agent who simulated his death for years before and he has an idea behind his head: finding his daughter (Reina Hardesty, seen in StartUp).
The latter is now a sociopathic assassin to CADDIS servicesan organization co-created by David at the time, now controlled by Juno (Piper Perabo, seen in Yellowstone), its former partner. Between A father who abandoned her and a woman who raised her like his daughterRebecca will have to choose the meaning she gives to the word family.
Better than a superbus song?
Prime Video has long specialized in the genre of spying action And there are no longer the programs that combine chase, fight, shooting, infiltration and re-sketch. The saga Citadel, Reacher, Jack Ryanor even recently Countdown, The stories are multiplying and the genre differs a littlebut the main thing remains the same. And in this big heap, there is necessarily to drink and stack. When Butterfly Start, we tell ourselves that we are badly embarked.
Before moving on for service groves, you have to know how to put wine in your water. From the first minutes, the series overseen by Ken Woodruff (The Mentalist) and the new new Steph Cha hears we are full of view with action, action and action. The least we can say is that throughout the six episodes, it is difficult to get bored so much The show maintains a constant rhythm And quickly knows how to go from introspection to explosion. For those who would not have had their dose of adrenaline, that makes coffee as they say.
We are also delighted to see Daniel Dae Kim, also executive producer, finally in the foreground. The actor is talented and flies from one genre to another with the ease of adults. Nevertheless, women sting the show. Perabo gains power Over the episodes, both by the thickness of his character and by his quality of play. But Our favorite goes to Hardesty Who manages to juggle between her different facets: the apathetic assassin, the abandoned teenager who has become an adult, and the little girl who is always admiring her father.
The caterpillar not yet butterfly
So what’s wrong? For a series of espionage action, Its main quality comes from its family history and the David / Rebecca relationespecially with a mid -season twist. Except that the latter never really has time to express themselves because torpedoing by the needs in nag production. The treatment of the father-daughter duo is parasitized by the need to stuff up yet another conflict with a nasty and powerful organization. The most dramatic is that the final of the last episode finally brings the issues that we had come to seek, but that we will have to wait for season 2. As if this first batch was only a long introduction to the real series.
And if Butterlfy has the merit of us Visit South Koreain particular by crossing various urban cities and landscapes, its action, it is nothing touristy. Certainly, we know that not all productions cannot be similar, but We would have liked to see the camera take more hindsight, especially in sequences with bare hands. Here, we are entitled to an old -fashioned assembly where it takes three plans to start the blow, give it, take it. A readability Who hadn’t missed …
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Butterfly has potential that only requires being better exploited in season 2. As it stands, we come out above all with the impression of having watched yet another series of action-espionage on the video premium that makes better than the worst of the genre, but far from having enough character to stand out. We do not fall asleep, nevertheless the torpor is there in front of a Highly predictable general intrigue. While waiting for an improvement, this is one more catalog filling.
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