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Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Chris Pratt returns to TV as a haunted Navy SEAL
in Prime Video’s ‘The Terminal List’
Chris Pratt (left) and
Taylor Kitsch star in “The
Terminal List,” premiering
Friday on Prime Video.
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A mission gone very wrong haunts a
Navy SEAL played by movie action star
Chris Pratt in a psychological thriller series
upcoming on Prime Video.
In “The Terminal List,” an eight-episode
series premiering Friday, July 1, Pratt (“The
Tomorrow War,” the “Guardians of the
Galaxy” films) executive produces and stars
as James Reece, a Navy SEAL leading a
covert mission in Syria that ended with his
platoon being ambushed and many of his
men dead.
Back home in the States, Reece grapples
with PTSD and conflicting memories that
cause him to doubt what he thinks he
witnessed that day and question his own
culpability. But when new evidence comes
to light, he discovers there are actually
dark forces working against him that could
endanger the lives of him and his family.
Based on the novel series by Jack Carr,
the series boasts a talented cast that includes
Constance Wu (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Taylor
Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”), Jeanne
Tripplehorn (“Mrs. America”) and Riley
Keough (“The Girlfriend Experience”). It
also has many ex-service people in its cast
and crew, starting with former Navy SEAL
Carr, who is an executive producer here.
“It’s a huge component of the novels,
is the military authenticity that Jack Carr
brings to his work,” explains showrunner
David DiGilio. “And it was something that
was foundational for the making of the
show. And we were committed to having
cast and crew with military backgrounds and
we were really excited that I think cast over
25 military veteran actors in the show.”
“We literally had the SEALs with us even
in final digital effects,” he continues, “pulling
out sparks from bullet hits that would not
spark in real life. That’s the level of detail
that the show went into.”
As for the story, much of it centers on
the relationship between Pratt’s Reece and
journalist Katie Buranek, played by Wu.
He initially distrusts her but as the story
progresses he realizes she really wants to help
him uncover the conspiracy that threatens
his life, and a partnership forms.
“We saw in Constance Wu somebody who
was tenacious, intelligent, funny, beautiful –
all of these things that embody Katie from
the book,” DiGilio says. “She steps into it
and, I think, in today’s day and age this kind
of notion of truth versus uncertainty really
speaks to the world around us.
“And so we have two characters going
after that truth through very different
means,” he continues. “One guy doling out
righteous vengeance, the other looking for
righteous accountability in the press. And
so they’re both allies at certain points in
the series but also sometimes obstacles to
each other. And so it creates this incredibly
complex partnership that evolves over the
course of the season.”
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