When a desperate Joe needs to hide, he gets into the home of Kathy Hale (Katherine Cunningham), but where Redford and Faye Dunaway turned that desperate gambit into a hungry sexual encounter the series sticks to taut physical intimacy and the sparring of a lawyer hearing a hard-to-believe story from a panicked fugitive. Relocated from New York to Washington D.C., Condor knows you shouldn't tempt fate too often. Look back and you have Alice and M*A*S*H in the 1970s. When you think about it, there's a strong spine of welcome reboots: Parenthood, The Girlfriend Experience (another anthology series, another Steven Soderbergh movie), Friday Night Lights, and – granted the verdict changes week to week – Westworld. As an anthology television series, Fargo has the wintry geographic pull of the Coen brothers' 1996 film and a feel for the misdeeds of those who imagine themselves wronged, but as it has improved with each season it has found its own obtuse logic and a feel for women willing to make risky, illicit moves. The best takes can enhance the existing DNA in marvellous ways, as happened with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or seductively allow the trace elements to seep through. ![]() Despite Australia's divisive contemporary politics, it was hard to fathom what Romper Stomper was meant to be when it was rebooted, a fate that's matched concepts as diverse as Karen Sisco (Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight) and the comic About a Boy remake. Often it seems as if the only prerequisite for converting a movie into a television series is a recognisable name and available rights. ![]() In that sense it's the right time for Condor.
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