Strong and Moving!

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I am more than disappointed to learn that this film series was not continued - I've been watching foreign films for the most part starting with the original "Wallander" and so many others however - while late in discovering this film I agree, most thrillers/espionage esp films done in USA are so - unreal and disappointing that I'd given up till watching, RUBICON -- ! What a great film, the entire cast is outstanding and I know that Miranda R is deceased now - what a loss to the world ! However, the other actors are the BEST I've seen as long as I can remember and I just can hardly believe it that AMC would have not only continued this but even that "Hollywood" or someone - didn't make a real movie with all this cast and storyline. What about Robert Redford, has he seen this ….?! Someone should is all I can say and I've left a note for Amazon to alert me if this is soon in production. Till then I will chase down the actors to see what else they have done….however, it's TOGETHER that makes this one of the very best films I've seen and a 5 star for sure winner. Thank You !

This show is like 'The Mentalist'. You have an emotionally scarred, extremely intelligent man, who has something that most TV characters don't: Maturity.James Badge Dale is perfect for the role, his 'poker face' shows the kind of raw and painful courage that required for suffering through a tragedy like he suffered.The maturity I talked about can be applied to the entire show. They are brutally straight forward about the story. This is how people act and react in the real world. Everyone has problems, but they keep up a brave face.The atmosphere of the show is well thought out. The entire Rubicon universe is plain and straightforward. No fancy, glittery anything. This is how it is in the real world.Even though it was cancelled after the first season, it doesn't matter. The show, like 'Awake', begs to be seen. I guarantee you, unless you're really NOT into the themes, you WILL come away thinking about every episode long after you've seen it.

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.

One cannot properly review this brilliant and exceptional TV series without spoilers. I have tried to avoid them but my best advice to the reader is stop here. Well, you have decided to go on reading anyway. Be assured I have been very careful not to reveal the plot itself.Instead, I shall simply point out the strong points of Rubicon and why I think it is well worth watching. Remember Rubicon is the symbol of no return, the burning of bridges after one has crossed them if you will. It is derived from the name of a minor Italian stream that marked the southern limit of Gaul. In leaving Gaul behind him Caesar followed his critical and irreversible decision to cross the Rubicon and march on Rome with his legions. Exactly how such a title applies to the series is still a mystery to me so I must watch the series again it on DVD when it becomes available. The series' own slogan is "Not Every Conspiracy is a Theory". There are no prior assumptions about a rather weakly linked chain of events that begin with a suicide of a person who at the beginning we do not know or what his motive was in blowing his brains out . The conspiracy, if indeed, there is one, may be uncovered by bringing together different pieces of evidence in a limited time without forming any hypothesis. On the way to solving or at least clarifying the problem the hero, the team leader , is beset by unexpected setbacks, offset to some extent by even less expected chance revelations and/or inspirations without prejudice. This is an intelligent person's spy tale with a non-Hollywood ending that, instead leads to all sorts of speculation. The mostly American actors are superb, the script is well written and the music track pleasant and not annoying. This is not a James Bond or a 24 Hours fantasy, nor is it a John Le Carre film based on his novels. A small team of government analysts, all facing problems and different motives in their dysfunctional private lives, have links to the FBI and the CIA but work in a maverick way that the regular secret services cannot understand, The underfunded unit is looking into the case of a suspected terrorist and toils long hours in an obscure set of gloomy offices in a back street converted warehouse of lower Manhattan. They have to piece together a difficult jigsaw puzzle with many missing pieces in a slow painstaking way despite time being of the essence. The main characters are more than just interesting as each displays a range of human strengths and weaknesses. These are real people neither Hollywood glamor pusses nor the sort of cardboard images one too often sees in TV series. The unit shows an ability to work as a team sometimes and at cross purposes at others. Despite its deliberate pace and sobriety Rubicon has the necessary elements of love, back biting, and treachery. Unlike most other spy thrillers it is not drenched in action but not devoid of it either. Suicide, murder and mayhem as well as love, erotic sex and betrayal are here but do not dominate. All the usual salacious stuff that turns viewers on (or off) is soft pedaled and much left to the imagination. When one thinks about it the understatements in Rubicon are more pungent than the obvious sex and gore seen in most TV today. Some viewers may find Rubicon slow at first but my advice is wait until the DVD comes out, once the kids and maiden Aunt Edith have gone to bed Try and focus on the details and lines, and exchange of remarks (the advantage of DVDs over live TV is one has the ability to pause and go back).Rubicon was limited to one season of 13 of roughly one hour ad-free episodes. Some viewers may have been disappointed that AMC decided against a second season. However, I think the AMC folk were right. By the end of episode 13 the plot had developed as far as it could, with the hero and viewers left holding the final piece of the puzzle and wandering how it fits, although most of us will have a pretty good idea. The ending does leave the viewer in suspense but,thank God, at the end there is no Hercule Poirot smugly explaining in every detail how he came to his conclusion. it would have been clumsy to have gone on even five minutes longer than the actual final fade out.