Alex Rider Retrospective - Season 1 Episodes 7-8

We’ve got 2 episodes left of Alex Rider to cover and thusfar it’s been a strong showing, though the pacing can be a bit hit or miss.

Alex Rider Retrospective - Season 1 Episodes 5-6

We’re back with another look at the Amazon/Sony adaptation of Point Blanc. It’s certainly taken some liberties with the source material but as a spy show it’s doing quite well with it, can it keep up the momentum or will the pacing issues finally cause it to stall? Let’s take a look.

Alex Rider Retrospective - Season 1 Episodes 3-4

We’re back with Alex Rider, and thusfar with them having to integrate elements of Stormbreaker into to plot to make it make sense, not much has actually happened, but it’s time to get back to the business of spy business

Alex Rider Retrospective - Season 1 Episodes 1-2

So you remember Stormbreaker?

I suspect some of you wish you could forget. I reviewed it twice (here and here) A movie that was intended to start a franchise but delivered its material in such a way that it became self-parody. It was over-the-top, ludicrous and diverged from its source material in frustrating ways but I still ended up kinda liking it.  

I’m not exactly surprised that the franchise it hoped to spawn didn’t materialise, its launch in America was badly managed by the Weinstein Company.

Enter Amazon to give the idea of an adaptation a second wind. They greenlit a series for their streaming service, starting this time with the second book in the series, Point Blanc, and incorporating elements of Stormbreaker into it rather than adapting Stormbreaker again, a wise decision, all things considered.

For reasons I don’t really understand whilst the series debuted on Amazon’s Prime Video it was later moved to the ad-enabled IMDb TV (now VeeTee), where its second season also debuted.

I have read the Point Blanc Novel but not recently, so I’ll be judging this show on its own merits, whilst making only vague reference to the book.