White Collar: Pilot (2009)
Season 1, Episode 1
5/10
the thin line between entertaining and cringe
24 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Oh boy what a ride.

I'm all in when it comes to movie magic/suspension of belief and so, but you guys are testing me big time.

You want me to believe that our protagonist (handsome of course):
  • after spending years in jail he makes himself unrecognizable by growing a beard and then shaving it
  • orders a police uniform online from within the jail
  • walks out from the main door and no guard recognizes him
  • knows about a mysterious con man, while not even the police knows nothing
  • steal a fancy car just because he wears a yellow raincoat
  • goes to the main location where the cops will look for him and gets arrested again
  • the doors to a mansion are wide open for him because he charms a widowed lady (and flirts with her young granddaughter)


anything else?

I might have found all of the above hilarious and stayed for the ride if the acting wasn't so surface level, the dialogues weirdly unsettling and our hard to believe couple of detective had a bit of chemistry.

Hard pass.
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