Wed 18 Mar 2020
A TV Episode Review: THE WIDOW “Mr. Tequila†(2019).
Posted by Steve under Reviews , TV Espionage & Spies[7] Comments
THE WIDOW “Mr. Tequila.†Amazon Prime Video. 01 March 2019 (Season 1, Episode 1). Kate Beckinsale and a large ensemble cast. Created and written by Harry Williams & Jack Williams. Director: Samuel Donovan.
As the pilot of this one season, eight-episode series, it does its job in one solid way: it sets the course for the season with a strikingly visual presentation consisting of at least three different story lines. What it does not do, and by no means is this a problem, it only tangentially brings any of them together, nor obviously are any of them concluded. This is the only episode I’ve seen.
Kate Beckinsale plays the title character, a widow who lost her husband, a medical aid worker in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who he died when his plane went down in wide swatch of jungle while on his way home. Watching a televison news report of civil unrest in that country three years later, she’s sure she sees her husband, either fighting or taking cover from the action.
She immediately hops a plane to the Congo to investigate, where she’s met by one of two men with whom she bonded as a small survivors’ group in the airport after the crash. There appears there is more to be known about the third, known locally as “Mr. Tequila,†which is about as far as this story line goes.
I plan to keep watching. I always enjoy watching Kate Beckinsale in action, and this is obviously a star vehicle built especially for her. She always lights up the screen whenever she appears. I don’t know exactly how she does, but she does.
March 18th, 2020 at 5:28 pm
I enjoyed this one, but felt they threw one too many plot elements in the first one. At the time I just didn’t have the energy or time for what looked like would be an open ended season that probably wouldn’t resolve anything until the next round.
March 18th, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Reviews, which I did my best to read without spoilers, are all over the place. I will follow my usual procedure on this. Watch until either I or the series runs out of steam. (And there’s usually a connection between the two.)
March 18th, 2020 at 10:07 pm
Sounds superficially like a very good Israeli series, WHEN HEROES FLY (Netflix). Four former Israeli soldiers and friends reunite after 11 years when a woman, the sister of one of them and former girlfriend of another, is spotted alive in the jungle of Colombia years after she was supposed to have been killed.
March 18th, 2020 at 10:34 pm
There’s certainly some similarity, Jeff, but then again, it’s a rather common basic idea for an adventure tale — trying to track down someone who’s been presumed dead for quite a while.
I’ve decided not to opt for Netflix, by the way, so WHEN HEROES FLY is out of reach for me at the moment. What I have going for me now are Amazon Prime, Acorn, BritBox and MHz. I’ve quit Cox Cable.
March 19th, 2020 at 8:05 am
Jackie was just talking about adding MHz after we watched the excellent Danish show BORGEN (which I highly recommend).
March 19th, 2020 at 11:27 am
I’ve seem that BORGEN available, but I didn’t think a series about Danish politics would be all that interesting. Perhaps I’m wrong?
December 19th, 2021 at 10:47 pm
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