- Network: Apple TV+
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 28, 2023
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The plot’s endless involutions interrogate the limits of personal and patriotic loyalty. Green is game even though it's never quite clear if, as one character wonders, “there’s an actual person under there”. But the real reason for sticking around is Cassel, whose anti-hero of the old school is rugged and enigmatic and intriguingly unprincipled.
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Sadly, the writing here by Virginie Brac feels routine and uninspired, going through the espionage motions that push the characters down tracks that give them nothing interesting to do while they’re traveling to their destinations.
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Liaison is a show that leaves little to no impression on us after watching it, mainly because it feels like a cynical pastiche of espionage thrillers that came before it.
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[Vincent Cassel and Eva Green] sail through these six episodes with the laidback efficiency we’ve come to expect from such professionals. The real problem is everything around them, serving a tired spycraft story that lumbers from trope to trope, even as it tries to spice things up with more contemporary nuances.
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At best this is a serviceable espionage potboiler, and, with a cast this good, you would not be blamed for expecting it to be a bit better than so-so.
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There’s perhaps a decent feature film to be found in Liaison, but reveals that might have felt a bit anticlimactic at 100 minutes feel irredeemably disappointing at six hour-long episodes.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 3 out of 5
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Apr 2, 2023
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Feb 28, 2023