Amazon Prime VideoTo prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
Great TV spy dramas can come in various forms, but in the end, viewers can't get enough of smooth agents, daring assignments, and stylish action sequences. But Prime Video has a hidden gem, Patriot, that redefines the genre with only 18 episodes. Patriot is unlike other shows created by Steve Conrad, combining thriller-suspense with dark comedy, folk music, and existential terror never before seen or heard. Patriot explores the price of duty, the solitude of secrecy, and the price of saving the world with one's soul.The tone of this show is where Patriot really shines.
But here’s the thing: Patriot is really, incredibly, ecstatically messed up. The show takes a spy drama and runs it through a filter of Veep-style oh-god-are-they-really … ? humor and the weirdo tenderness of—I’m dead serious—Amélie. Its closest recent comparison might be Killing Eve, at least from a murder-as-camp perspective. The show is the brainchild of Steve Conrad, whose previous credits include the gloriously bleak The Weather Man and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and, yeah, that’s about where the pulse sits.
