The Enemy Within: The bonkers pleasure of network TV GlobeArts
from the trailers. It’s all breezy, romantic action featuring two good-looking actors playing characters who bicker a lot and flirt a little, while fighting international crime in glamorous locations. He’s FBI and a sensitive, by-the-book guy. She’s CIA and madly incautious. It’s a lot of fun, actually, and made mostly by people with a history of making comedy series. It airs Wednesday, ABC, CTV, 10 p.m. and you can catch up online.
Mainly what it has going for it is Jennifer Carpenter as Erica Shepherd, a former CIA operative who has spent the past three years in a supermax prison because she betrayed four other CIA agents who were then killed. Very, very reluctantly, FBI Agent Will Keaton has Erica pulled out of prison to help understand a new series of attacks on the United States and help capture the terrorist mastermind behind it all.
Carpenter is best known for playing Debra Morgan, sister to the good-hearted serial killer Dexter Morgan on Showtime’sHer flamboyance with foul language and gauche physical presence made her an adored character. Here she’s obliged to play a figure usually played by male actors who add a rococo quality to their villainy. Think James Spader onor Anthony Hopkins in one of his outings as Hannibal Lecter. The Erica character is far more subdued, steely and cunning.
Meanwhile, there are escalating attacks and Agent Keaton is continually stymied. He has a hate-on for Erica to begin with, because she’s responsible for the death of his girlfriend. There isn’t much depth to the Keaton character and Morris Chestnut, who keeps turning up on mediocre TV series and doesn’t really have the charisma to make the figure compelling. The real torque of the drama is anchored in the passel of mysterious figures who are out to kill and cause destruction.
There is a bonkers quality to all of this. Taking its title literally, the show seems intent on revealing that one character after another isn’t trustworthy, but is, in fact, working for the other side. Earnestly paranoid in tone, the show is splendid escapism, if you’re looking for that. With its breathless emphasis on spies, lies and destruction, it breezes along. And it really benefits from Carpenter’s turn as a very mischievous but unknowable villain who might actually be a heroine.
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