Chris Ryan

Many non-professional actors.

In the first episode, if you watch a lot of criminal underworld TV or even a fair amount, a lot of very familiar meets.

Yeah.

You know, a lot of, like, one brother who is going one direction and another brother who's going another.

There's, like, the sort of mysterious drug lord who takes my lord under his wing.

There is, you know, a lot of...

just basically like, you know, mechanics that you would be familiar with if you've watched like Power, if you've watched Top Boy or whatever it is.

I think that the thing that jumped out at me wasn't really, and this isn't really a critique because I think it's a really interesting gambit, but I do think that working with a lot of non-professional actors puts the show at a little bit of a disadvantage if it's also going to be a little bit cliche in its story.

Now that being said, like,

If you watch the first episode of The Bureau, you might say, like, this is a lot like a lot of spy shows I've seen before.

And obviously it changed.

So I'm going to keep checking out episodes of Bandy.

But yeah, it was a little bit of a letdown in so much as I had five minutes of knowing it existed before I checked it out.

And then was like, oh, OK, maybe this isn't like on the level of The Bureau yet or whatever.

And maybe that's not the intention.

Blow people's minds.

Yeah, like Paradise had to do.

I was going to mention that there is still talk that he is going to return to the world of espionage in a 2025 interview.

I read with Rashad he was talking about a show called Secret World, I believe, that he was working on, which was going to be about agents from five different countries.

But he spoke very eloquently in this interview about how.