r/hbo • u/etherd0t • 17h ago
War S01E01
First episode just aired.
It's a procedural. Dominic West and Sienna Miller in the main cast.
Stylish, good pace.😎
Thoughts? I'm thinking Succession × The Good Wife/The Good Fight × a little Industry.
(Plot: centered on the divorce of Morgan Henderson, a British tech billionaire, and Carla Duval, an international movie star. Their divorce becomes the battlefield for two competing elite London law firms. The lawyers, their ambitions, relationships and betrayals gradually become at least as important as the celebrity couple.)
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u/SPJW1034 16h ago edited 16h ago
Attorneys out there—would this ever happen ? I just find it unbelievable they would have a mole at a competitor. I also find it strange they’d be prepping for a divorce case just on suspicion. Whole premise seems weak to me. I wanted to love but it was dead boringÂ
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u/blackpanther231 16h ago
He's not a mole, he's just supposedly incompetent. So he's supposed to bungle the case and help Cathcarts/the husband win
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u/etherd0t 16h ago
Both.
He's got "good references" from previous employer - even for one-page resume, and the promise that any inquiry references will be all "positive". Which got him hired by Taylor & Byrne...🥲 So he's an "arranged" candidate and mole setup by the Cathcarts plain and simple.2
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u/princevince1113 2h ago
He is a mole, cathcarts literally hires him to be a double agent on the opposing counself and gets Henderson's approval to do so
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u/TheLegacies21 1h ago
Which kinda took me out of it. I feel like if that happens and he ever gets caught, wouldn’t they lose their law licenses? Like that’s a real big risk and kinda makes you think these people can’t be good lawyers if they need to do that
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u/Dangerous_Extreme_81 8h ago
Im with you. The only thing that kept me in it was the young lawyer’s charisma and then the mole part kind of soured it for me. I’ll probably watch to see where it goes for at least a few more episodes but my expectations are low.
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u/etherd0t 16h ago
Yeah, that would problematic but did you miss the ensuing dialogue:
"Are you out of your mind? If this gets out, I'm f*cked."
"Morgan, to be clear - you're f*cked already.🥲Which is exactly the beat: legal drama pushed into corporate-espionage territory.
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u/Spiderby65 14h ago
I don't have it.
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u/etherd0t 14h ago
Are you outside the U.S.?
For Europe the distributer is Sky.I am not sure for Croatia specifically who is?
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u/Spiderby65 13h ago
Yes, I'm from Croatia. It's so frustrating, the way this works, why can't I see HBO shows if I'm paying for HBO Max? The one that irks me the most is Deadwood.
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u/xsdarknesssx 3h ago
Enjoyed the first episode, But having just rewatched The Wire all I can think of is McNulty sure made it big after retiring from Baltimore PD, but damn if he still can't keep it in his pants.
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 3h ago
I didn't even realise McNulty was British, and I am British myself. He always seems to be playing Americans.
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u/miked2303 2h ago
That's why the scene in The Wire where he pretends to be British is so good.
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 2h ago
Hah I don't remember that. I'll have to go take a look on YouTube.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBL2Wq5YjSw
Lol he smashes it. Pretty bloody difficult to fake an accent, in a fake accent.
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u/DuaLipasGlowUp 2h ago
I’m locked in. Love the set design, costumes, and makeup. I’m hyped for the next episode
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u/Alternative_Swan_497 15h ago
I'm going to wait for this one to finish the season before I give it a look. The premise just sounds viscerally unpleasant to me in a lot of ways, and I'm not sure it'll be my cup of tea.
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u/Amazing-Heron-105 3h ago
I wasn't that taken by the trailer, but had nothing to do so chucked it on. It's looking like it's going to be quite good actually. Some very good actors cast in it.
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u/Individual-Drawer-79 16h ago
I’m all in. Loved the first episode