Cobie Smulders has moved from the big screen back to the small screen, from the MCU to - well - an altogether different type of comic book adaptation.
Stumptown, based on a series of acclaimed graphic novels by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth, is a fiery and frenetic P.I. series with flare to spare. Smulders is a wonderful fit here, infusing traumatized Marine Dex Parios with enough down-on-her-luck charm to portray a barely-competent investigator.
Supporting her special needs brother, Ansel (Cole Sibus), shouldering a gambling debt, and harboring deep emotional wounds from a past wartime love, Dex is the best kind of gumshoe to follow: a flawed, self-sabotaging siren who, at least in this first episode, stumbles her way to victory. You want your underdog heroes to accumulate cuts and bruises, both physical and spiritual, as they reluctantly champion justice. They'll start out doing the job for money but eventually finish it for pride. In this regard, Stumptown is a prickly pleasure.
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Stumptown, based on a series of acclaimed graphic novels by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth, is a fiery and frenetic P.I. series with flare to spare. Smulders is a wonderful fit here, infusing traumatized Marine Dex Parios with enough down-on-her-luck charm to portray a barely-competent investigator.
Supporting her special needs brother, Ansel (Cole Sibus), shouldering a gambling debt, and harboring deep emotional wounds from a past wartime love, Dex is the best kind of gumshoe to follow: a flawed, self-sabotaging siren who, at least in this first episode, stumbles her way to victory. You want your underdog heroes to accumulate cuts and bruises, both physical and spiritual, as they reluctantly champion justice. They'll start out doing the job for money but eventually finish it for pride. In this regard, Stumptown is a prickly pleasure.
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