The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Review: In this prequel to the 2022 Prime Video series The Terminal List, Dark Wolf follows Ben Edwards’ journey from Navy SEAL to CIA operative as he tries to stop a dangerous enemy from wreaking havoc in the world.
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Prime Video Cast
Taylor Kitsch, Tom Hopper, Chris Pratt, Jared Shaw, Luke Hemsworth, Dar Salim, Robert Wisdom, Rona-Lee Shimon, Shiraz Tzarfati
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Creators
Jack Carr, David DiGilio
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Series Showrunner
David DiGilio
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf 2025 Directors
Frederick E.O. Toye, Liz Friedlander, Paul Cameron
The series has 7 episodes, each with a runtime of around 60 minutes. It is based on The Terminal List by Jack Carr and serves as a prequel to the 2022 series, The Terminal List.
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Review
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf and its contemporary shows will give much entertainment to most viewers who enjoy light-hearted, testosterone-driven, somewhat action-packed shows with minute after minute of the word brotherhood thrown around without any irony.
I have watched too many of these bro-coded shows this year, from The Recruit, The Night Agent, to Reacher, and I think I have hit that sweet spot where I have seen all combinations of what can happen in these shows. The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, thus, comes a bit too late to the game and brings literally nothing of note that made me sit up and take notice.
With minute after minute of arduous conversations that feel like a chore to watch and very mild action that gets boring as soon as it starts, I can’t help but ask the point of this show, considering Prime Video has other successful franchises. 2022’s The Terminal List wasn’t a smash success for us to want to learn about the backstories of these characters in any capacity, and thus, the show starts to feel like it’s trying too hard to get us to like it.
The conflict among the different men and their changing motivations for their work makes up a bulk of the runtime. However, again, the problem is that we have seen a version of this in multiple shows this year itself and in the latter half of the year, it’s turning out to be a little tiring. I found myself not caring much about multiple grown men throwing a fit over arbitrary things and situations, and not following orders. It’s so clichéd at this point that it’s starting to not register for me!
But then again, I guess I can forgive a lot of these things if the series gave us some breathtaking action sequences. The biggest negative about the show is that it focuses more on the conversations instead of the action, and it’s not unique enough to base itself on dialogue alone. More often than not, viewers will find themselves able to guess what’s coming next, and it just takes away from the interest that we have accumulated for the series.
Final Thoughts
Maybe it’s the overexposure to these spy thrillers or the general lack of unique storytelling, but I didn’t enjoy watching The Terminal List: Dark Wolf simply because it’s just not entertaining. For spy thrillers to work, the audience needs to be on the edge of their seat through any goofy plot progression, which doesn’t happen with this show. There is far too much talking and less action for me to be engaged, and its obvious and clichéd twists and turns are nothing but annoying thanks to the above-mentioned lack of action.
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