Rabbit Hole: Pilot - Personal Thoughts

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I like to watch low rate Tv Shows trying to find rough gems and sometimes I find them, on my free time I like to spend part of my time watching TV series, not exactly a Movies guy, I'm also constantly looking for whats new and today stumble with Rabbit Hole, a TV Series that brings back Kiefer Sutherland a man who is always running away and explosions follow him.

Kiefer Sutherland work on two of my favorite Tv Shows, Designated Survivor and 24, on both this guy keeps running away, disaster and conspiracy follow him every where, it looks like Rabbit Hole is not the exception, why reinventing the wheel when its not broken, take a good script with the same theme as the two series I mention and let Kiefer do his magic.

Main Cast
Kiefer Sutherland - John Weir
Charles Dance - Dr. Ben Wilson
Mega Golding - Hailey Winton
Enid Graham - Jo Madi
Jason Butler Harner - Miles Valance

This case is savage we got a nice group of already known actors from Walking Dead, The Kings Man, 24, The Hunger Games, Surrogate. Its almost a certainty this tv series wont disappoint.

Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.

Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/rabbit_hole

This time Kiefer plays John Weir who has a business of making things look like they happen, perception is an asset a very delicate one and all you need is a picture or a video to create reactions from others in your advantage involving one of the oldest trick in the book of dirty business, blackmail. In such type of business you cant trust anyone and must know that you are in danger to be betrayal by those who you work with.

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The episodes starts with John pulling a job on this guy, John is sitting at a bar doing his own thing watching a futbol game while this desperate investor who a few minutes was talking about going big to make money asks the bartender to change the channel because of some tip he got about news related to one of his trades.

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Bartender eventually change the channel and the investor pull a trade he had open at the moment.

Been paranoid and have bad feeling about almost everything.

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After completing his plan, not because of coincidence, John ends up sleeping with Hailey Winton, on this episode they don't explain that much about her but John does start to investigate her since things don't make sense.

Thats Hailey face after John tells her it didn't work, she wont be able to blackmail him and he things everything is part of a plan from FBI agent Jo Madi, this two are main characters on the series. John pulls a camera of a clock next to the night stand so its true someone was watching them but Hailey tells John she knows nothing about it, latter on this episode seem she was saying the truth and for sure John will look for her to get answers, on this series nothing happens because of coincidence.

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Here is Jo Madi, the FBI agent John was talking about, she comes to John office and tells him she knows what went down on the bar and it was all manipulation to get the investor sell his position and dump the stock so John's client could buy cheaper, the news on the tv were a lie, local transited just to that Tv as it was part of the plan to send a fake message to the investor phone and tell him to watch the news, the fake news so he panic and sell. Remember, if its on the Tv they already doing it, this kind of things do happen in real life believe it or not, social engineering is very well paid, there have been big cases, data manipulation and social engineering have let to hacks like Twitter hack a few years ago where accounts like Elon Musk and Barack Obama got hijacked because a Twitter rep who had access to certain back office panel could control this accounts.

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On this episode they tell a bit about John and his father, how it looks like they were very distant, this two pictures I think its them, John as a kid with his father. John ha a son but he doesn't life with him, probably because of his job, not much is said about it but for sure will develop latter during the series.

Its hard to spoil a series like this since its more about the details than anything else, its how things happen that makes it special, all the clues that let to another searching for the truth.

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John gets a call from an old friend Valence who is now a big shot, Miles Valence, he is not working at a big data company, Arda Analytics and wants John to get his hands dirty and makes things happen for him, Miles wants two person to show up together potentially sharing information if possible.

Plan: have Banomar Group rep show together with a Treasury Department either on video or phone, the scene has to potentially assume blackmail or bribery, what ever fits the story as the rumor is Banomar Group uses child labor investigated by Treasury Department.

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Money shot that gets to Miles hands thanks to John's crew who pull an excellent job, during this entire time John is pending a meeting for assuming a big job with someone name Tom, part of his crew has met Tom in the past and everyone likes the guy, not much is explain about him on this episode.

After John gets out of Miles office he sees Hailey across the street taking a cap, he goes back to his office and ask his crew to investigate her, it looks like she was saying the truth and probably was manipulated by some one who wants to make John look dirty or have something on him. This is where everything blows apart for John, literally.

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He locate Hailey again and while he was trying to get answers from her in old fashion Kiefe Sutherland, he gets frame and now has to run for his life, John is accuse for the murder of U.S Treasury Office, as a result his office gets bomb, police is looking for him, Miles office hangs up the phone on him, its a total mess that he now has to find a way out

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Looks like the job was more complicated than just frame two person now with both Miles and the Treasury Officer dead and John accuse of murder.

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WTH isn't that the Treasury Officer John is been accuse of murder, did Miles plan failed or was John ahead of it the entire time? did his crew die during the bombing? The mind games on this series is great.

Rabbit Hole is the clear example of a triple A series with a well known cast, so far I cant find anything wrong with it and love the mind games, Kiefer is a specialist when it comes to this kind of stories and well known for it, this is a must watch tv series if you like thriller/action/manipulation theme series, conclusion turn out to be very short but there is nothing to be said other than MUST WATCH!!