‘The Continental’ TV Review: ‘John Wick’ Prequel Drenched In Disco, Heroic Bloodshed & Mel Gibson
deadline.comKeanu Reeves’ master assassin may have been left for almost dead at the end of the fourth John Wick film, but things are still alive and kicking in the franchise, at least retroactively.
Or, to quote The Continental: From the World of John Wick’s Mel Gibson’s manager of the “precious” hotel for killers in the rotten Big Apple of the 1970s: “Son of a bitch, where’s my f**kin’ shotgun?” With more than its fair share of Me Decade revolutionaries, rats (literally and figurative) and “fun fumes,” as Gibson’s feral Cormac exclaims, the Greg Coolidge, Kirk Ward, and Shawn Simmons-co-created The Continental is primarily a throwback to the heroic bloodshed genre perfected by Ringo Lam and John Woo in the 1980s.
Which is to say, with more than a nod or two to 2011’s The Raid, the partially Albert Hughes directed limited series kicks bellbottomed butt in true John Wick style over its September 22 debuting three-part run on Peacock.
Additionally, like that other recently debuted spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The Continental is a combination of more of the same and how we got to the insanity of the Reeves films.
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