Citadel

[Greg]

Does this mean I have to finish watching Citadel? Because it was bad....

[Drunk Monk]

I don’t think so.

You don’t like Bollywood. You’re way too uptight. Or maybe it’s a UK thing. 

Why would you even bother.

[Greg]

Maybe it's not me. Maybe it's Bollywood?

[Drunk Monk]

A $1.3B industry. Just none of Greg's $$. Because it's not him...

[Greg]

Deadpool vs Wolverine made $1.1bn......

[Drunk Monk]

Any PoCs?

[Greg]

Dopinder.

[Drunk Monk]

Who?

[Greg]

The Taxi Driver that wants to be a hitman.

[Drunk Monk]

A diminutive comic relief role?

[Greg]

Fine. How about Morena Baccarin of Brazil?

Update: I just thought of a major cameo that is a person of color. But no spoilers.

Look, it is pretty white in the MCU. I can't defend it.

[Drunk Monk]

Honestly Morena & Jennifer are the only reason I want to see this.

But that's really for another thread...

[Drunk Monk]

Watched the first 2 eps. It’s not Bollywood. It’s Tollywood, which is even better. A stuntman and a wannabe actress meet on a Bollywood film (they in Mumbai so Bollywood, but they’re speaking telugu so Tollywood). The actress gets evicted and the stuntman offers her a spy gig. She takes it and thus begins her journey into the citadel-verse.

This is a prequel. The stuntman & actress will be Priyanka’s parents. Nadia (Priyanka) is introduced as a prepubescent girl and the target of the baddies. 

The story jumps back and forth through time a lot. That gets a bit hard to track. There’s some oddly meta moments when the stuntman & actress talk about their film work and how it relates to their spy work. 
 
Honey is the actress. Bunny is the stuntman.

The action is good - some nice fights, gunplay, and car/motorcycle chases. There’s a particularly well done fight when Honey escapes being tied up in a car trunk, cuts through the back seat, and takes out her kidnappers, a driver and another thug riding shotgun. Both eps have had nice action sequences sprinkled liberally within the show.

Not sure if I’m that engaged, but I’ll watch more. Hoping for a dance number. Or a sword fight. 

Not D00M recommended yet. Might never be. Probably just a DM guilty pleasure.

[Drunk Monk]

E3 opened with a nice oner-esque action piece. It ran nearly 10 mins and there were lots of digital stitches, but still, twas a decent bit o ultravi. Stole a scene where the kid is told to hide and given headphones to cover the killing sounds, but I can’t remember where I saw that before.

Samantha, who plays Honey, is growing on me. She delivers decent action and has beautiful huge orbs. 

There was a song in this ep, but no dance number. 

This moves back and forth in time too much and the subs don’t match what is said, which is a bit confusing but also entertaining.

[Drunk Monk]

E4 was a back story ep that revealed how Honey broke from the org after getting pregnant. A lot of running and chasing in this ep, a few cold blooded kills, but this is waning. Two spa left and I might bail.