Citadel review: Priyanka Chopra Jonas With Russo Brothers
Cast: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Richard Madden, Stanley Tucci, Lesley Manville, and ensemble.
Creator: Russo Brothers and Bryan Oh.
Director: Russo Brothers, Newton Thomas Sigel, and Jessica Yu.
Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video.
Language: English (with subtitles).
Runtime: 2 Episodes Around 30 Minutes Each (6 Episodes In Total).
Citadel Review: What’s It About:
A global spy agency Citadel is on the verge of existence as the Manticore (the bad people) are destroying their roots brutally. Nadia Sinh (Priyanka) and Mason Kane (Richard) are two agents who need to be called back to save the little bit of Citadel left. But the battle is more extensive than one could think.
Citadel Review: What Works:
A John Wick-ish underground culture, some top-notch action, Priyanka Chopra Jonas being the boss, Richard Madden serving our eyes, and the Russos bringing us to the edge of our seats every 5 minutes, are we prepared to witness a global franchise being born? The IP culture blending into the long-form storytelling has helped creators to experiment and widen their canvas much longer than one could have thought of a decade ago. Citadel stands right in the centre of the transition, where it takes cues from the past and shapes a future.
Created by Bryan Oh, Russo Brothers (Joe Russo & Anthony Russo) with their skilled team of writers, Citadel is much more than what we have already heard. It is surprisingly a show that has not even revealed its tip in the trailer, the iceberg is submerged deeper than we thought. One has to celebrate the sheer idea behind a show that doesn’t just look at ‘a’ industry but the world as one. The canvas is massive; every part of the globe can be a participant. The show, at the core, is a culture, one that of the spies who are trained to be ruthless assassins and go undercover like a chameleon. Imagine this world as full of people trained in Black Widow’s Red Room but not for selfish gains but for world security.
The best part about this show, which has some amazing action, and brilliant cinematography, is that it doesn’t assume that the audience can understand the backstory by looking at the present. It takes efforts and entertaining efforts to tell you how deeper this world runs around us. The year the show unfolds is 2030, Citadel is over a century old, and its opposition, Manticore, is somewhere the same age. They have both evolved, and their cultures have adapted both the root techniques and the technology.
The first two episodes screened for the critics hint at a lot. An abruptly broken love story, some incomplete jobs, and a very massive action sequences that we are prepping ourselves for. The only fear is that all these threads meet somewhere and don’t go unattended.
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