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This show has a lot going for it: good actors, solid jokes, and a great premise that is ripe for satire. The writing however has never really dazzled me. For season 2, they should do more character stuff and hit WAY harder with the satire.
The Brink: Created by Kim Benabib, Roberto Benabib. With Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Pablo Schreiber, Aasif Mandvi. Top U.S. government and military scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.
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- 2015-06-21
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Watchlist. The risk of World War III is real, thanks to a paranoid Pakistan army general who gains control of the country and its formidable nuclear arsenal.
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The Brink avoids disaster thanks to the game efforts of a talented cast, but they - and viewers - deserve political satire with a sharper bite. Read Critics Reviews
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- June 21, 2015
- How was the all-star HBO political comedy?
- Verdict
By Amber Dowling
Updated: Sep 1, 2015 8:40 pm
Posted: Sep 1, 2015 8:39 pm
Note: Full spoilers for The Brink: Season 1 follow.
Political satire is a hard beast to pull off, especially when you cobble together a trio of heavy-hitting, recognizable actors and place them in some very real world situations. That was the problem The Brink faced when it debuted towards the end of June. Even those who tuned into the series knowing that it was in large part inspired by Dr. Strangelove had to familiarize themselves with the show's strange beat, while those who tuned in following the lighter toned Ballers on Sunday nights had to Google what they'd gotten themselves into.
So it was no real surprise that the inaugural few episodes of the show didn't quite live up to expectations. A whoring Secretary of State (Tim Robbins) who hurled insults around the White House wasn't quite the leading man we were expecting. Meanwhile, watching a bumbling diplomat (Jack Black) get himself captured by insurgents during a quest for weed, only to be subsequently released on a convenient ploy to involved that aforementioned Secretary of State, seemed absurd at best. In fact the only real reason to tune in during those first couple of episodes were for Pablo Schreiber and Eric Ladin's fighter pilots Tilson and Taylor. Their buddy-buddy banter and tendency to accidentally muck up their tasks despite their talent made up for the other two narratives.
The first few episodes of the HBO comedy were strange and off beat, in large part because The Brink is so different than the other TV fare out there. Political satire is hard to do with so many scary real world events out there from which to draw from, but after a rough first couple of episodes the actors settled into their characters and viewers g...
- Amber Dowling
Jun 22, 2015 · The Brink review: "Despite its near-the-knuckle bravado, the humour is often clunkingly old-fashioned" HBO's new political satire starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins lacks the wit or subtlety of...
Jun 18, 2015 · Reviews. Jun 18, 2015 8:45am PT. TV Review: ‘The Brink’. By Brian Lowry. Courtesy of HBO. Owing an absurdist debt to “Dr. Strangelove,” “ The Brink ” tries to excavate comedy, or at least...
