This, though, feels like one of those instances in which the trickiness of the split storylines becomes a cover for the sense that, through the four episodes sent to critics, none of the three timelines would be close to interesting enough to sustain interest. It seems like a wholly logical combination of narrative interests for Smith, who made intricate and emotionally effective use of inverted chronology in his American Crime Story season and built his career as a novelist on twisty espionage thrillers.

In 2034 - “The Future” - Tayo has become the director of the FBI and it’s quickly made clear that Something Very Bad happened in “The Present,” which led to the proliferation of an AI system that has made people safer. In 2023 - “The Present” - we see the agents at work, including Tayo’s investigation into a Montana separatist organization, Hour’s development of a powerful new database, and a troubling new assignment for Poet. Smith), as well as their instructors (Brooke Smith and Jon Jon Briones). In 2009 - “The Past” - we meet the new prospective agents at Quantico, including Poet (Mara), Tayo (Henry), Hour (Sepideh Moafi) and Lennix (Brian J. And although the series gets a small dose of relevance from its treatment of AI-driven, predictive law enforcement, even that feels like a decently executed remnant from an assortment of broadcast failures rather than something creatively urgent. In the broadest of strokes, that’s the logline for Class of ’09 as well. Quantico, which ran three seasons, used multiple timelines to introduce viewers to a fresh group of FBI trainees and then, in the future, show that class responding to a shocking attack that one of them may be blamed for. And as everyone becomes more convinced of Josh's guilt, Reed's private suspicions lead her somewhere she doesn't want to go.Cast: Brian Tyree Henry, Kate Mara, Brian J. The perfect life Reed has constructed as a Billings Girl begins to crumble. Instead, Josh begins to look like suspect No. But when Reed breaks the news about Josh to the Billings Girls, there's no fun game of tell-all.

Those feelings combined with an empty campus result in the hottest hookup Reed could possibly imagine. They are forced to confront the feelings they've been hiding. Thanksgiving break arrives and Reed and Josh find themselves alone on campus. Taylor is acting like the poster child for Prozac, Kiran is spiking her cornflakes, Noelle is being kind of.nice, and Arianna keeps floating along as if nothing has happened. Life at Easton Academy begins to feel very different. No one knows how it happened, and everyone is after the truth. Reed's boyfriend, Thomas Pearson - the popular, easygoing, irresistibly handsome and charismatic boy she fell in love with - is dead. Cheating, partying, blackmail, and now.murder?Ĭan the Billings Girls remain untouchable?

Untouchable by Kate Brian