Kiefer Sutherland, who won everyone years ago with the role of Jack Bower in the series 24 Hearts, is now back with a different role, but in a similar and more interesting series called Rabbit Hole (complicated situation).
It was the beginning of 2021 when the streaming service Paramount Plus put the construction of a spy and scary series on the agenda. At the very beginning, Kiefer Sutherland was chosen to act in the main role, and John Ricoa and Glenn Ficara became its main creators; The directors of This Is Us series and WeCrashed series, which we introduced some time ago on Zumji. Over time, other actors including Meta Golding, Enid Graham, Rob Young, Walt Klink, Charles Dance and others joined the team of artists of the Rabbit Hole series (complex situation) and started working.
According to Kiefer Sutherland himself, this collection was inspired by several other similar political and frightening works; Among them, we can mention the movie Three Days of the Condor, the movie The Manchurian Candidate, the movie Marathon Man and the movie The Parallax View. The creators of the complex situation series started their work from the very beginning with the goal that their new work will be among the first ranks in the list of the most watched series and bring them many successes. Although this is the goal of every manufacturer, they succeeded to some extent.
Critics who watched the film gave it relatively good scores and recorded many positive comments. In general, critics believed that although the complex situation series repeatedly engages in a certain complication in the story, Kiefer Sutherland appears so attractive and impressive until the end of the story that the viewer can close his eyes on some issues. Kiefer Sutherland’s most famous series, 24, started in 2001 and ended in 2010, and now after all these years, Complicated Situation is his first action and horror series.
The Rabbit Hole series actually shows more than anything how much we needed Sutherland’s reappearance in the spy and horror genre. The complicated situation is not that different from the 24 series. In this series, Sutherland plays the role of a contract and corporate spy named John Weir, who is a professional in his work. Just when he thinks everything is going according to plan, he finds himself caught up to his neck in a massive conspiracy. In this series, there are both shadow figures and hands behind the curtain.
As always, there are characters in the story who go back and forth in tense situations and have special earphones in their ears. There are scenes in the story where John Weir realizes, just like us, that something catastrophic is about to happen, but nothing can be done by him or us; So as this is happening, we are forced to watch with regret. The complex situation series shows time and again with its story that nothing is as it seems. Weir, who is considered to be a very professional spy, reaches dangerous issues in one of his cases.
He discovers a dangerous map of powerful forces and realizes that they can control the population and have the power to subvert democracy. Since he has access to highly classified information, he is framed for murder, and is set on a massive manhunt that leaves him with no choice but to escape. John Weir, in such a situation where he no longer trusts anyone and sees reality as an overturned calculus, is trying hard to understand what and who is real and what is not real.
John Weir has been dealing with mistrust and deception all his life. Now can he trust a team of strange allies to help them destroy an enemy with deep ties to his past? Who is this who intends to use our information against us? John Weir takes us with him into a world of surveillance, misinformation, as well as fraud and deception to find the man who is at the center of this big plan; We must stop this enemy as soon as possible, before it is too late.
Kiefer Sutherland’s John Weir is not the hero we all think he is. He fights; He says ridiculous and funny things; He loses in a battle with a series of teenagers; And overall, Sutherland seems to be having fun with the role. Perhaps the only criticism that can be made of this series is that it is not very clear what it wants to be. It seems that the complex situation started its path with one thing, then over time it constantly wanted to win everyone’s heart and traces of everyone’s idea can be seen in it.
As a result of this incident, a series has been created that sometimes is not at all clear what its structure is and what it wants to be. But in general, it can be said that it still has its charms and cannot be removed from your watch list. The action scenes, the terrifying story and the acting of the actors on the one hand, the attractive presence of Kiefer Sutherland in this genre, his dealing with such a complicated situation and the calamities that constantly descend on him, on the other hand; The positives of the Complicated Situation series outweigh its negatives… so it can’t be missed.
Series similar to the complex situation series
Series 24
- Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope and Sarah Clarke
- genre: Action, crime and drama
- Release year: 2001 to 2010
Synopsis: Jack Bower, who is a counter-terrorism agent, must race against time to thwart terrorist plots and save his country from major disasters.
Serial The Capture
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- genre: Criminal, mysterious and terrifying
- Release year: 2019 so far
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Serial Homeland
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Actors: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin and Damien Lewis
Release year: 2011 to 2020
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