While Scott Foley is a recognizable name on the silver screen, Lauren Cohan is probably the more famous one at the present moment, fresh off her The Walking Dead fame. The titular protagonist is played by Scott Foley – whom you might know from The Unit, Dawson’s Creek, and that one episode from Grey’s Anatomy. However, the lead figures still make for competent detectives for a change.įor all its publicity, Whiskey Cavalier certainly does not make short of its star-studded cast.
On other fronts, it does have many of the common idiosyncrasies of such and such comedy spy thrillers like Johnny English – it does parody many of the spy tropes, and the protagonist ends up being the butt of the joke more than one time. Whiskey Cavalier first premiered on Februon ABC with a sneak peek of the first episode airing on February 24, 2019. On face value, Whiskey Cavalier may seem like one of the many mock-spy shows like Archer, but it differs in the key element that it also tries to incorporate an organic buildup to a romantic intrigue that never feels forced. Smith (the very same movie that became the beginning of the off-screen Brangelina saga). ABC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine having already proven that a comedy-centric show can still have a skeletal trace of cop procedurals, Whiskey Cavalier harks more than a decade back in time to a recreate a faint glimmer of Mr. More specifically, we can speak of ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier.
Fortunately, we still have at least some genre-blenders carrying the chalice of action-romcom-spy-thrillers to this day. One would be hard-pressed to think that the shift towards commitment to one single genre and tone has to do with producers becoming risk-averse. Genres are not mutually exclusive shells, but elements which can be combined together without necessarily spreading the personality of a show too thin.
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