"The great Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg once told me that the problem with movie sex scenes is that the movie just stops while we watch the actors have sex. I feel that way about action scenes, especially on TV. Although a handful of directors can make them thrilling Kathryn Bigelow, Jackie Chan, George Miller I nearly always find myself waiting for the chase to end or the gunfire to die down so we can get back to the story."
"A case in point is Butterfly, a new Prime Video series starring Daniel Dae Kim as a spook who comes out of hiding to save his long-lost daughter. Loosely adapted from a graphic novel by Arash Amel, this labyrinthine six-parter sends its heroes and villains racing all over South Korea. The result is an intriguing, frustrating hybrid in which a spy thriller plays leapfrog with a K-drama about fathers and daughters, mothers and sons."
"Kim plays David Jung, a former U.S. government spy who once owned a big private security and intelligence company, Caddis, with his partner, Juno that's Piper Perabo a woman with the ethics of a spitting cobra. Everything changed when somebody sold David out during a mission. Fearing this enemy would harm his teenage daughter, Rebecca, he decided to fake his own death and hole up in South Korea."
Butterfly is a Prime Video six-part series starring Daniel Dae Kim as David Jung, a former U.S. government spy who faked his death to protect his teenage daughter. The series is loosely adapted from a graphic novel by Arash Amel and alternates between spy-thriller action sequences and K-drama-style family melodrama. David once co-owned a private security firm, Caddis, with partner Juno, now a surrogate mother to his daughter Rebecca, who has become Caddis' leading assassin. The plot centers on Rebecca being ordered to kill a mystery man who is revealed to be her presumed-dead father, setting off predictable kidnappings, killings, and double crosses amid colorful supporting characters.
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