![]() ![]() Stream It Or Skip It: 'Eat The Rich: The GameStop Saga' On Netflix, A Docuseries About How GameStop Stock Exploded Due To Robinhood, Reddit And Roaring Kitty Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hostages’ on HBO Max, in Which the Iran Hostage Crisis is Revisited Via an Excellent, No-Frills Documentary Series Jordan Peterson Cries Over Olivia Wilde Using Him as Inspiration for Chris Pine's 'Don't Worry Darling' Character Stream It Or Skip It: 'House of Gucci' on Paramount+, in Which Lady Gaga's Gusto Can't Carry a Bloated Dud of a Biopicĭrew Barrymore Praises Prunes in Oddball Opening Segment on ‘Drew Barrymore Show’: "I Love Prunes" Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Anikulapo’ on Netflix, a Nollywood Epic About the Sordid Affair Between a Lowly Merchant and One of the King's Wives 'The Serpent Queen's Samantha Morton Doesn't Mince Words About "Sex Trafficker" Diane de Poitier Stream It Or Skip It: 'Interview With The Vampire' (2022) On AMC, Which Brings The Tale Of Lestat And Pointe Du Lac Into The 20th And 21st Centuries Rob Zombie's 'Munsters' Movie Ignores Everything That Worked about the '60s Series 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Star Rachel Sennott Gleefully Tells Delighted Seth Meyers About Her "First Blowjob": His Intern ![]() New Movies + Shows To Watch This Weekend: Disney+'s 'Hocus Pocus 2' + More It’s one thing to show how quickly the ground can shift beneath Ben’s feet, and quite another for the series to constantly rewrite its own priorities.Stream It or Skip It: 'Huluween Dragstravaganza' on Hulu, Where Drag Performers Do Spooky Numbers It opens with an in media res flash forward to a random cartel altercation and Ben trudging away from the border wall through the desert before cutting back “5 days later.” It then takes an episode and a half to reach that moment, before the show upends its own premise and throws Ben headlong into the insular politics of the cartel, headed up by its own cliché of a ruthless leader (played by Juan Pablo Roba). It doesn’t help that the show’s structure is just as confusing as its protagonist. No amount of sweeping coastline shots - and there are plenty, thanks to director Michelle Maclaren’s keen eye - can distract from the fact that this guy just isn’t smart or interesting enough to follow to hell and back, as “Coyote” otherwise requires. Maybe that appeals to some viewers, but to this one, watching Ben charge through every scene with righteous fists at the ready quickly becomes exhausting. It barely fleshes out Maria’s character, nor that of Silvia (Adriana Paz), a Mexican local who sees something special in Ben that “Coyote” assumes the audiences will understand without giving any tangible reasons.Īs played by Chiklis, a veteran actor of flawed TV authority figures, Ben’s rarely more than a blowhard who sees himself as the one true arbiter of justice. The series frames his willingness to help her as a compassionate turning point in his life, but fails to find much of interest therein. In the case of Maria, however, Ben recognizes that she’s about the same age as his daughter, thus activating some latent paternal instinct deep down. He’s rarely thought about the people he arrests as three-dimensional figures he apparently never even learned more than a few scattered words in Spanish throughout his 32-year career. ![]() In fact, as we learn in one particularly upsetting trip down memory lane, Ben is prone to shooting first and asking questions later to no real consequence. As we learn in sporadic flashbacks, Ben was hardly the most compassionate officer while on duty. ![]()
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