USA's Treadstone tries to offer Jason Bourne without Jason Bourne

The Hollywood Reporter

USA's new action drama series based on the CIA black ops program from the Bourne films is "all action and no brains," says Daniel Fienberg, "something that's pretty clear early on and then becomes an epidemic in the second episode, culminating in a hilarious car chase in which assassins from North Korea (but not the Treadstone sleeper agents, just for clarity) are chasing a former journalist turned British cab driver who is in France trying to... oh, forget it. But the funny part is that she drives like Jason Bourne, even though she was recently a journalist and probably hasn't been over 55 miles per hour in a cab ever, but that doesn't stop her from being able to navigate like a badass and flip other cars while driving her own. Again, no brains, all action."

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