The pair play Quantico trainees in Tom Rob Smith's limited series, which features a time-jumping, AI-heavy twist.
, which ran three seasons, used multiple timelines to introduce viewers to a fresh group of FBI trainees and then, in the future, show that class responding to a shocking attack that one of them may be blamed for. In the broadest of strokes, that’s the logline foras well.
It seems like a wholly logical combination of narrative interests for Smith, who made intricate and emotionally effective use of inverted chronology in hisseason and built his career as a novelist on twisty espionage thrillers. This, though, feels like one of those instances in which the trickiness of the split storylines becomes a cover for the sense that, through the four episodes sent to critics, none of the three timelines would be close to interesting enough to sustain interest.
Perhaps because their motivations are less wholly telegraphed, Tayo and Poet are the most enigmatic characters in the series and thus the most compelling. Watching Mara and especially Henry latch onto specific, small acting challenges — the subtle shifts in Henry’s physicality or Mara’s expressions of empathy over the decades — is less about solving the show’s mystery and more about solving the mystery of what must have drawn them to the project.
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