Laikals
The greatest movie ever made..!
Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
Isbel
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Better_TV
I'm evaluating the whole series here, not just the first episode. It's a darn good show - really darn good. Well worth watching in 2018, and also worth rewatching, which I plan to do in a few months once the show isn't so fresh in my mind anymore.There have been many TV shows about spies and subterfuge (Homeland, The Americans) and terrorism (The Looming Tower, The Unit, 24, etc.). But this show filters America's "war on terror" through an intel analysis firm, where brilliant and bookish individuals sift through raw intel to give recommendations for America's NatSec apparatus. And that's only part of the show; the other part involves a creepy, wide-ranging conspiracy that's ever bit as exciting and scarily omniscient as the ones you'd find in those classic 70s conspiracy flicks like "The Parallax View" and "All the President's Men."The writing is thoughtful and the dialogue is rich; there's so much of substance here, and the show doesn't need big explosions or shootouts or anything like that to sustain an intricate, fascinating plot and rewarding character arcs. Everyone is interesting, from James Badge Dale as the paranoid, hyper-focused analyst Will Travers to Miranda Richardson as widow Katherine Rhumor, who is trying to figure out why her rich husband suddenly took his own life.Special commendation, though, has got to go to Arliss Howard as Will's supervisor Kale Ingram: the coolest, most fascinating, chilly and badass middle-aged gay character I think I've ever seen on an American TV show (refreshingly, Ingram's homosexuality is simply presented as is, with no frills or B.S., something shows in 2018 still struggle to do). And Michael Cristofer as the cigarette-smoking weirdo and head of API Truxton Spangler is another winner: every scene he's in positively crackles, and his true motivations will keep you guessing.From the cinematography (you'll think you're watching a Hollywood movie half the time, it's so good) to the writing to the performances, this is a show to treasure and savor. Budding screenwriters simply must study this show's scripts, and the show overall is is one of the most wickedly smart things I've ever seen on American TV. Shame there's only the one season; it could've done a lot better if it came out today on a streaming platform.Do yourself a favor and watch Rubicon, if only to see just how good TV can be.
benjaminamorgan125
The show is dynamic and A.M.C. has made their biggest mistake ever! I can't say how angry I am to find out when coming to IMDb to see if there was going to be a second season and Smash... Nothing. A.M.C... I hate you. Bring Rubicon back, you had something good, bring it back!Characters are interesting and the plot is phenomenal. Although it has been stopped, please watch. This series will follow like Firefly, Doctor Who, or Star Trek. Never cancel a good show. Remember A.M.C., some people get their stuff online. Did you check to see the internet download rates? The torrents have more thumbs up than the average Dr. Who! I can't express enough how valuable this show really is and I want everyone to know. I want everyone to be angry at A.M.C. I want everyone to think about this show. And I certainly want everyone staying up late at night to watch re-runs of Rubicon.BTW... Rubicon is a reference to the Rubicon river, which Caligula 's army in 49 AD I believe crossed to go to a war. "Crossing the Rubicon" derives from this act and therefore means "to go with no return". Love the title!
Amin Jacoub
Either it is some curse or whatever, but the best of the shows on TV don't live long. There are many great TV shows alive, many died long time ago, but rarely some of them live for more than a a season or two, except some of them even 4 or 6 or 9. I say 4 season per show is OK, 5 even more beautiful, 6 magnificent, but some of them that deserves more of it regarding applause from audience ends after first. Why? Then I made a short survey, and of course it is because of some profit from number of viewers. But then is that really true?Let's put aside that. Rubicon is one of the unique TV shows with its theme. The quality in complete is not questionable, and it reminds me on movie like it is "3 Days of Condor" for example. The other day I watched "Page Eight" and it reminds me on this show. But that is my impression. Even this show had no explosive plot, its slow yet clever plot put as inside the story in fine way. And it is a great mysterious thriller. I liked how authors of the show presents us that behind the scene life, and how they developed tension. Any when it came to its crescendo they cancel it.It is really a pity, and it takes some time to put my anger aside. Well that is life and that is production companies politic. As Rubicon breath more as a movie than TV show I put it in my film library as one great long running movie.
DantE HickS
this show won't get renewed so i keep it short.this could have been so much but it failed short on the action, so it felt short on the ratings ...imagine three days of the condor without any deaths... are you done? OK, so this is rubicon. watch it, if you like to think about what is going on and don't if you need someone to tell you what is going on. it is that easy. this is what three days of a condor was past watergate bur for the 9/11 generation. maybe it was to close to the truth, maybe the ratings were to bad, we will never know. only watch it if you don't need an ending, else re watch three days of the condor.
