Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Selected programming for March 23-29, 2024 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:22:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:22:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4bbdef7ff27218e1f52c77ed43d56dcf"; logging-data="512442"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+RqBx/azxCvVILl71Mo6LA3lrQVhcEqFg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:A74VGCUi81Rpvb9A6o/+SHZ9sv0= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1951 Dimensional Traveler wrote: >On 3/24/2024 10:09 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>. . . >>This sure sounds like one of the plots on the Treadstone tv series from >>a few years ago. I'd say the assasin with a secret identity as an >>ordinary family woman has been done to death and much better and that >>this standard plot should be retired for a few years, but no one cares >>what my opinion is. >"Treadstone tv series." Treadstone as in the Bourne Identity? Yes. They adapted a tv series based on the evil Treadstone program from the Robert Ludlum novels. There were no references to anything else in the novels nor the movie adaptations. I don't think the Jason Bourne character was even mentioned in dialogue. 10 episodes, USA Network, September-December 2019 Very little of the continuing plot made sense. I don't recall that any of the story lines were wrapped up. There was plenty of snarking here on Usenet.