He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
Fans of political thrillers are in for a treat, as HBO Max recently added a limited series about a contentious geopolitical issue. The eight-episode series originally aired on TNT from September 13 to October 4, having received largely positive reviews. The show comes on the heels of Netflix’s Unabomber, with which it shares a manhunt-driven narrative. While one half of Unabomber follows the hunt for the domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the new TNT series traces the events surrounding one of the most intense manhunts of the 21st century. Apart from Unabomber, the series will also appeal to fans of Kathryn Bigelow‘s widely acclaimed political thriller Zero Dark Thirty, which follows the decade-long quest to locate Osama bin Laden.
Much of the new series unfolds in parallel to the plot of Zero Dark Thirty. The events — America’s War on Terror and its subsequent invasion of Iraq — are closely linked. In fact, the protagonist of the show grapples with the actions of his country, unsure if the invasion was even justified. The show’s protagonist, played by Joel Kinnaman, is based on a real-life CIA officer whose book served as the show’s foundation. Kinnaman is having a major year, especially on the small screen. He began 2026 with the Netflix thriller series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole.
Four criminal masterminds. One of them was always going to be yours.
Here is who comes for you, why they picked you out of everyone available, and what they want from
the encounter.
Your nemesis does not want to beat you. He wants to know you
completely, and he is patient enough to wait for it. The frightening part is how good the
conversation is.
- Lecter is the most dangerous kind of opponent: the one who finds you interesting. He
never raises his voice, because he has never needed to. - You keep a great deal to yourself and you are careful about what you show. That reserve
is exactly the door he would knock on. - The films understood something other thrillers missed. The horror is not the violence.
It is being perfectly understood by the wrong person. - He would be unfailingly polite about all of it. That is the worst part.
Your nemesis is not after money, territory or revenge. He is
after a demonstration, and you are the person he has chosen to prove his point on.
- The Joker only picks opponents who believe in something. Your decency is not a defence
against him. It is the entire reason he showed up. - He has no plan you can predict and nothing you can take away, which removes every tool
you would normally reach for. - His whole argument is that you are one bad day away from being him, and you would spend
the rest of your life proving him wrong. - He would call it a magic trick. You would call it the worst night of your life.
Your nemesis respects you, which sounds flattering until you work
out what it means. He chose you because nobody else was worth his time.
- Moriarty is the original criminal mastermind, the template every later one borrows from:
a mind the equal of the hero’s, pointed the wrong way. - You enjoy being the cleverest person in the room. He is counting on exactly that, and he
has already built the room. - This is the rare nemesis who would be genuinely disappointed if you lost badly. He needs
the game to be worth playing. - It ends the way these things always end. Two people, one problem, and only one way down.
Your nemesis has no personal interest in you whatsoever, and that
is precisely what makes him unsurvivable. You are not a rival. You are a stop on the way.
- Chigurh does not negotiate, gloat or explain. He arrives, he asks one question, and the
answer was decided long before you opened your mouth. - You trust yourself to handle things. He is the one problem in the world that has no
interest in how capable you are. - No Country for Old Men rewrote the screen villain by removing the thing audiences
quietly rely on: the sense that talking might work. - Call it. He will wait.
The Political Thriller Received Mostly Positive Reviews
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Image via TNTKinnaman’s TNT series is titled High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam. Created by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham, the show also features Waleed Zuaiter as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who was apprehended in 2003. According to FlixPatrol, the show emerged as an instant hit on HBO Max following its addition to the platform’s library. It holds a 71% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. High Value Target arrives only a few months after Netflix’s four-part documentary series American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden. Fans may also be interested in checking out The Looming Tower, a Hulu limited series about America’s fraught relationship with bin Laden in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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