The Brink: “There Will Be Consequences” Review – AVClub

AVClub: What’s left to say about this season of The Brink? It’s a show that wanted to be both a Strangelove-esque satire of global politics and a broad farce about three unsuspecting heroes trying to stop nuclear war, and didn’t quite succeed at either. It privileged plot over character every single week, and as a result, the series’ three main characters have remained as static and sketchy as when they were introduced. It’s technically a comedy, but despite a handful of chuckle-worthy lines and the occasional funny scene, it rarely delivered the laughs necessary to swallow the constant table-setting, the awkward narrative choices, or the overly-flattering depiction of its protagonists. But by all accounts, The Brink achieves exactly what it sets out to do, and if you’ve been on board with the series since the beginning, I’m sure “There Will Be Consequences” was a satisfying ending. For the rest of us who found The Brink a tiresome bore too risk-adverse to be anything but mediocre, the season finale was shrug-worthy from beginning to end.