The prequel series' nods to the film franchise feel weirdly misguided, unnecessary, and—worst of all—not the least bit fun.
, pays homage to The Bowery King with a character named Maisie. But like every other instance of the show directly nodding to things in the movies, it feels weirdly misguided and needlessly cheapens the movies for basically no reason—and that extends to the central character of the show, a younger version of Ian McShane’s Winston played reasonably well by Colin Woodell.
reference that plays off of the audience’s existing knowledge of the other movie where a guy played by Reeves gets into a bigcould be forgiven for a little Easter egg like that if it were the only one. It’s a cool quote from a? Well, another one of the show’s Easter eggs feels a little more random and meaningless: Near the end of the show, after a standoff with a bad guy, a character gives Winston a “this isn’t over” look and drops another familiar line: “Be seeing you.
And then there’s Maisie, the show’s stand-in for The Bowery King. She’s a woman who has, if not in any official capacity, rallied together the city’s unhoused people to create an army of sorts that doesn’t play by the rules of the people at The Continental or at The High Table. The secret power beyond and beneath the other secret power.
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