In an exciting atmosphere, this drama series, follows the struggles of a U.S. Army team, who goes in a secret mission to find information about the terroristic groups, as they find out that a well known American corporation funds them, the thing that challenges them.
American Odyssey has pulling power, if you'll give it a fair shot. Fair warning, through: it also has some telegraphed developments and a few rather preposterous ones. You'll likely know them when you see them.
American Odyssey is the umpteenth attempt at this format and giving it a conspiracy plot backbone - another tired plot device - only makes the show more pat.
It was like someone had cut up broadsheet newspapers from recent years and glued bits randomly to the script, making the whole thing lack cohesion. Homeland it certainly isn't.
The problem is, there are three tales embedded in its framework, which includes familiar elements - the tension of 24 and the intrigue of Homeland - that add up to something less than the sum of its parts.
To be blunt, the bar is higher to clear than it was ten or certainly twenty years ago, when a show like American Odyssey would have felt like something new.
