I am sick and tired of these series that are only six to eight episodes, where individual episodes sometimes a have a forty minutes or less runtime.looking at you Disney Plus! Besides, this is actually a positive, because it allows the show to breathe, the story to unfold properly and the characters to actually develop in a meaningful way. The series is eight episodes long.and you actually get your money's worth. Some may point to perhaps the overly long run of the episodes.

Which is also what makes for such compelling viewing.

But that is part and parcel of the story and the different paths the characters have to undertake. The show is not necessarily an easy watch and is at times grim and darkly-themed. 'The Terminal List' is an edge of your seat mystery-spy-action-thriller with a healthy dose of revenge seeking thrown in there, one that while not necessarily breaking any new ground (there are other similarly-themed series and movies of varying levels of quality) still manages to feel fresh and put it's own spin on the genre. No empty virtue signalling or moral grand-standing here. The themes and ideas of this show are woven into the storyline and plot points as well as the journey of the characters. It is a series that is unabashedly entertaining, interesting and a pleasure to watch start to finish. A show which doesn't preach, insult or attack it's audiences or tries to force-feed a specific message of anykind. Shows like this one are far and few between these days.

This is the type of entertainment that used to get made on a fairly regular basis yesteryear.

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