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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

No string theories attached

When it comes to espionage tales, I am not so discerning. Which was just as well in the case of "The Copenhagen Test". It began silly - the protagonist is a spy whose brain has been hacked - and continued being silly for eight episodes, adding or changing *anything* just to provide frequent twists. Simu Liu's mindfucked agent, Alexander Hale, was likeable enough, as was Melissa Barrera's mysterious Michelle (apart from when she wasn't). I didn't care for the rest of the charas. Or the worldbuilding. I didn't care for the flashbacks. I certainly didn't care for the weak, illusion-of-progress ending. Furthermore, the series had zero of note to say about real intelligence organisations or geopolitics. I'm surprised the reviews I've seen weren't harsher. Gods help us if actual spy agencies waste resources like the clowns depicted in "T/C/T" do monitoring/attempting to control one unlucky dude.

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