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Choreographing one of the most expensive TV series ever. READ James Young, Stunt Coordinator for Amazon Prime’s Citadel by Brian Chansy

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Watched the first 3 eps. It’s not Bollywood. It’s Tollywood, which is even better. A stuntman and a wannabe actress meet on a Bollywood film (they in Mumbai so Bollywood, but they’re speaking telugu so Tollywood). The actress gets evicted and the stuntman offers her a spy gig. She takes it and thus begins her journey into the citadel-verse. Honey is the actress. Bunny is the stuntman.

This is a prequel. The stuntman & actress will be Priyanka’s parents. Nadia (Priyanka) is introduced as a prepubescent girl and the target of the baddies.

The story jumps back and forth through time a lot. That gets a bit hard to track. There’s some oddly meta moments when the stuntman & actress talk about their film work and how it relates to their spy work.

The subs don’t match what is said, which is a bit confusing but also entertaining.

The action is good - some nice fights, gunplay, and car/motorcycle chases. There’s a particularly well done fight when Honey escapes being tied up in a car trunk, cuts through the back seat, and takes out her kidnappers, a driver and another thug riding shotgun. Both eps have had nice action sequences sprinkled liberally within the show.

E3 opened with a nice oner-esque action piece. It ran nearly 10 mins and there were lots of digital stitches, but still, twas a decent bit o ultravi. Stole a scene where the kid is told to hide and given headphones to cover the killing sounds, but I can’t remember where I saw that before. Samantha, who plays Honey, is growing on me. She delivers decent action and has beautiful huge orbs.

There was a song in this ep, but no dance number.

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