A politically correct action thriller, what's not to like? Featuring an armed underground group that hits ICE immigration detention camps as well as banks, and armed right wing police forces working together with independent armed militias and racist conspirators...just great. Very scary and threatening, largely because it felt so real and relevant. Tense all the way, though the violence is mainly suggested rather than actually experienced. Long at nearly three hours, but we treated it like a series and watched it in blocks.
Echoes of The Company You Keep, which was about the real Weather Underground, and Running on Empty, about a radical family in hiding and trying to stay one jump ahead of investigators.
Watched via informal distribution, which felt especially appropriate. Incidentally, the underground seems to mainly organise via CB radio rather than anything more technologically sophisticated, relying on old fashioned agreed code words rather than encryption. I think they have a point.
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