Reece returns to San Diego grieving for his men and anxious to get answers, but the more leads he follows, the more danger he’s about to put his wife (Riley Keough) and other loved ones in. Reece is a Navy SEAL commander, and in the series’ opening scene, his platoon is sent on a mission that goes very, very wrong.

The Terminal List was adapted from the first of five Jack Carr novels built around the character of James Reece (Pratt). It should then go without saying that of course there will be an audience for The Terminal List.

It’s the entertainment equivalent of a charred hockey puck, with the same limited range of flavor and aesthetics. The Terminal List is all beef, all muscular stringy beef - and, at eight hours for a book that easily could have been adapted in two hours, it’s been left on the grill for so long that the result is dry and tasteless. There’s no more draining or siphoning of personality trains and levity that could possibly occur going forward. On the bright side, there’s nowhere Pratt’s career can go after Amazon’s new drama The Terminal List. Pratt’s Jurassic Park movies aren’t completely without mirth, but his aura has been so drained of those distinctive elements that almost anybody could have played whatever his character’s name is.Ĭast: Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jai Courtney, JD Pardo, Patrick Schwarzenegger, LaMonica Garrett, Stephen Bishop, Sean Gunn, Tyner Rushing, Jared Shaw, Christina Vidal, Nick Chinlund, Matthew Rauch, Warren Kole, Alexis Louder, Arturo Castro, Marco RodríguezĬreator: David Digilio from the book by Jack Carr Whatever the right fat-to-beef ratio was, Pratt found it in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, blending convincing action chops and enough jocular charm to carry a loopy premise in a way that few other actors could have. An amateur thinks, “Less fat is more meat and therefore must be better,” while the expert knows that fat equals juiciness and unless you enjoy a dry, beefy burger - and some do - the key is finding the right ratio.Ĭhris Pratt has been figuratively (and literally) fiddling with his professional fat percentages for over a decade as he’s been making the career transition from likable TV comic foil with unexpectedly strong bone structure to increasingly generic leading man.

Though the true experts might tinker with cuts of meat in different combinations, a good starting position is with fat percentages. Your basic weekend BBQ griller might just grab the nearest package of ground beef at the grocery store, but somebody with high culinary aspirations obsesses over proportions.

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