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Scenario
The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living pulling off high-priced hits
He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe. Check out our list of renewals and cancellations to see if your favorite show made the cut. “Day of the Jackal” The novel is set in 1963 and involved an assassination attempt on then-French President Charles de Gaulle.
The show moves the setting to the present day
Referenced in Graham Norton and Guests: Denzel Washington/Paul Mescal/Saoirse Ronan/Eddie Redmayne/Blossoms (2024). This would have been an exceptional chase if the female lead had been anyone else, literally anyone else. The way she portrays the detective makes the viewer, at least this one, not want to root for her.
She comes off as a conniving, cold, know-it-all, selfish woman
Yes, she’s in the police force, and what she does is good, but how she does it is horrible! I don’t like her and I don’t care for her either. Because of that, I feel like a lot of us who watch the show will root for her.
He’s not a killer, even though he is a killer
The Jackal. I don’t want her to succeed in her mission and I don’t want the Jackal to get caught. I don’t think that’s how it should be, but that’s how I feel.
And I know I’m not the only one
At first glance, she’s getting close to him. Unfortunately, if she succeeds, it’ll make me want to stop watching this show. And that’s too bad, because he’s amazing in it!
