User Reviews

I loved this fast-paced and very entertaining episode. Loved how they throw in jokes in the most serious moments.

I also love the main characters, each and every one of them! Great casting and great acting, and above all, great chemistry.

The only thing is that Gigi looks too young, which made it kind of unbelievable.

The fact the first episode was half gritty half comedy with alot of action was enough to made me a fan of this series.

This pilot episode is okay but it is nothing special either. In my view it is just another in a very looooooooong series of attempts by TV producers to sell us suckers on their veiled young and good looking thirty somethings pretending to be adept federal FBI and CIA agents.

Although the scenery is above par (Paris France, Moscow Russia, and Hamburg Germany) the excessive banter foreplay between the FBI agent Will Chase (Scott Foley) and CIA agent Frankie Trowbridge (Lauren Cohan) is so irritating and has been done verbatim by many other failed TV series over past decades.

Most irritating is the blatant abuse of a gunshot wound and the over simplification by FBI agent Will Chase in removing a bullet with a 10 inch wide kitchen knife from the interior of the abdomen of CIA agent Frankie Trowbridge who then shows no ill effect from internal bleeding and she remains conscious throughout her new found friendly agent as he removes the bullet. Yeah right! Puhhhhlease! In fact it's ironic that CIA agent Frankie Trowbridge uses a fake tampon which is actually a James Bond type of explosive device to distract the bad guy as she jumps off the table with less than a flesh wound.

But eh, it's TV crap at its finest (thus the 6 out of 10 rating) and as such I did not expect anything close to realism from a male and female 30 somethings who spent most of this pilot episode exchanging excessive banter foreplay.

*** A message for the writers and producers:

If you want a 10 out of 10 rating create another series like "The Wire (2002), or "Dexter (2006). I for one am not impressed with this excessive banter foreplay as entertainment.

Horrible. Every cliche in the book. Plot holes and ridiculous logic all over. One of the characters (FBI) actually tells the other (CIA) that the FBI has jurisdiction over their prisoner because he happens to be an American citizen. Even though they're in Moscow at the time! And the dialogue? You can anticipate the next line at least 90% of the time. I will give this series two more episodes to improve, only because Lauren Cohan is in it. She can't have left TWD to take on something this stupid. Update: after now having watched four episodes, I can now say I think this series has massively improved. In fact, it's damn watchable. A solid 7.

How does this show show have a 8 rating? Hollywood is getting worse.

Eh. The premiere episode of Whiskey Cavalier was just okay. The concept isn't that interesting and the two leads have no real chemistry. The characters, including the supporting cast, don't really shine or aren't particularly memorable. There's nothing compelling about this. I wouldn't even call it good popcorn fare. It's little more than a time filler. It's something you watch if there's nothing else on. I like Scott Foley, and I see that he's a producer. He just needs to find a better project or better script or something. I can't quite put my finger on it but there's just nothing that about Whiskey Cavalier that makes me want to watch a second episode. I didn't hate it, but there's so many other things I'd rather watch.

Because half way through I turned it off. I realized I just didn't care about Will or Frankie or "government corruption at the highest level!" The two stars are for the production values and the expensive location which is probably Prague standing in for Russia, France, Germany.

If this lasts more than three episodes, then the viewing audience are idiots. The performances are like watching compost dissolve.

I was expecting an "Americans " or "Homeland " drama and turned on a dramity that was not funny or dramatic. I really don't know where it was going. Every cliche that could be incorporated was used up in the pilot so we won't have to worry about the 'slow motion catch the vile' or the 'explosive tampons' again. I'll watch a few episodes and hopefully a story line will develop.

I work overseas and watch this on Hulu. So I was really hoping that this show would be my new go to for action. Especially with Lauren "Maggie Rhee" Cohen helming the show. I'm not going to spoil this like many others have. However, these covert operatives don't even know what the word covert means! Everything everyone else has said that gave this show 4 stars or less is true. 80% of what these "agents" do in these situations, no real agent would EVER do. If this makes it to a second season, I don't know what that means for our society as a whole. I'll grudgingly watch the second episode just so I can say I gave it a chance.