"Kessler" Episode #1.2 (TV Episode 1981) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(1981)

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6/10
A slight improvement.
Sleepin_Dragon18 December 2022
Kessler completes a big transfer, and attempts to keep a low profile by moving to London.

It's a slight improvement over the opening issue, but I would again argue that pacing is the main issue here, it meanders from one scene to the next, it's all very static, somewhat wooden, and definitely very dialogue heavy.

Clifford Rose is doing a pretty good job as Kessler, his real identity wasn't hidden away for too long, before we got to know who he was, and the secrets hidden in his dark past.

The interesting element here is how Kessler's enemies are being dealt with, there's nothing being done out of sight, everything happens quite shockingly in broad daylight, long before the days of CCTV of course.

Interesting, but I am finding it a bit slow, this was better though, 6/10.
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5/10
Episode 2
Prismark1021 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The second episode of Kessler has to stand on its own two feet.

The characters from Secret Army were just for the opener.

Kessler realises that the television interview was a mistake. His associates want him to keep a low profile and go to London.

The British government has no interest in pursuing war criminals.

That does not stop the British secret service having an arrangement with the German police.

Meanwhile Kessler's henchmen are silencing his enemies. The nuisance television got the poison umbrella treatment. Mical Rak is also in their sights.

It struck me that Kessler shares much with espionage series like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

The critically acclaimed television show that the BBC broadcast in 1979. There is an espionage theme to the show with various spy agencies and police shadowing him.

Bizarrely it also mixes that with The Omen. Kessler's enemies never get too close before being bumped off.
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