stardustcreations I am more than disappointed to learn that this film series was not continued - I've been watching foreign films for the most part starting with the original "Wallander" and so many others however - while late in discovering this film I agree, most thrillers/espionage esp films done in USA are so - unreal and disappointing that I'd given up till watching, RUBICON -- ! What a great film, the entire cast is outstanding and I know that Miranda R is deceased now - what a loss to the world ! However, the other actors are the BEST I've seen as long as I can remember and I just can hardly believe it that AMC would have not only continued this but even that "Hollywood" or someone - didn't make a real movie with all this cast and storyline. What about Robert Redford, has he seen this ….?! Someone should is all I can say and I've left a note for Amazon to alert me if this is soon in production. Till then I will chase down the actors to see what else they have done….however, it's TOGETHER that makes this one of the very best films I've seen and a 5 star for sure winner. Thank You !

dromasca I like detective or spy stories, but only those with soul and brains, and unfortunately there are not too many. I do not like conspiracy theories but I recognize that they make great thriller and action movies stuff – X-Files (arguably the best science-fiction series in the history of television) included. Rubicon is a combination of the two themes in the right ratio and is the best TV show I have seen in Israel this year. Unfortunately it was produced by a smaller American TV network, and did not enjoy the rating success that would allow it to survive more than one season. It happens unfortunately too often lately with shows I like – definitely my taste is not in tune with the one of the American mainstream viewers.The detective theme of 'Rubicon' centers within a Manhattan based spy agency, one of the many which seem to divide in pieces of puzzle the American spying and counter-terrorism system. It's employees are not supermen or action people, but smart bureaucrats or analysts as they call them nowadays, they do not call the president on daily (or weekly episode basis) as in '24′ and if and when they carry a gun they do it with the same tremor as you and me would do it. They are usual people who deal however with the same global terrorism threats as 24′s Jack Bauer did, and they are pray to the same pressures as the CTU, or even larger, fighting not only the enemy out there but also a malefic conspiracy of riches trying to manipulate the whole world. Their position is much worse however, as the corruption seems to have infiltrated to the higher echelons of the reporting line. As in the best novels and movies of the spy genre (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes immediately to mind) nobody can trust anybody in the organization, and the corridors of the building as well as its outskirts are permanently infested with surveillance cameras, electronic bugs and suspicious eyes.The best part lies however in the characters building. If the spy intrigue remains sometimes cloudy and murky we do not care as much because we have real human that build themselves beautifully on the screen. The series starts with a new boss nominated to the team Will Travers (James Badge Dale) who replaces the former team leader who apparently committed suicide, deals with all the conflicts and will pay the price of trying to do the right thing. His boss Kale Ingram (Arlis Howard) happens to be gay, so he may be the good guy (one of the more recent stereotypes in American cinema and TV scripts) but who knows in this suspicion filled atmosphere. Assistant Maggie (Jessica Collins) and smart but drugs addicted analyst Tanya (Lauren Hodges) fight each their own daemons. There are more characters, and each of them is clearly and carefully designed and by the time the series end we care for all and understand their motivations. More than a spy drama 'Rubicon' is a psychological thriller and maybe exactly the qualities that I appreciate in the series are not the ones that broader audiences attracted by the more immediate striking emotions in action series are used to. I feel to be in complete divorce with the mainstream taste that dictated 'Rubicon' to be terminated.

Amin Jacoub Either it is some curse or whatever, but the best of the shows on TV don't live long. There are many great TV shows alive, many died long time ago, but rarely some of them live for more than a a season or two, except some of them even 4 or 6 or 9. I say 4 season per show is OK, 5 even more beautiful, 6 magnificent, but some of them that deserves more of it regarding applause from audience ends after first. Why? Then I made a short survey, and of course it is because of some profit from number of viewers. But then is that really true?Let's put aside that. Rubicon is one of the unique TV shows with its theme. The quality in complete is not questionable, and it reminds me on movie like it is "3 Days of Condor" for example. The other day I watched "Page Eight" and it reminds me on this show. But that is my impression. Even this show had no explosive plot, its slow yet clever plot put as inside the story in fine way. And it is a great mysterious thriller. I liked how authors of the show presents us that behind the scene life, and how they developed tension. Any when it came to its crescendo they cancel it.It is really a pity, and it takes some time to put my anger aside. Well that is life and that is production companies politic. As Rubicon breath more as a movie than TV show I put it in my film library as one great long running movie.

Paul Papadopoulos One cannot properly review this brilliant and exceptional TV series without spoilers. I have tried to avoid them but my best advice to the reader is stop here. Well, you have decided to go on reading anyway. Be assured I have been very careful not to reveal the plot itself.Instead, I shall simply point out the strong points of Rubicon and why I think it is well worth watching. Remember Rubicon is the symbol of no return, the burning of bridges after one has crossed them if you will. It is derived from the name of a minor Italian stream that marked the southern limit of Gaul. In leaving Gaul behind him Caesar followed his critical and irreversible decision to cross the Rubicon and march on Rome with his legions. Exactly how such a title applies to the series is still a mystery to me so I must watch the series again it on DVD when it becomes available. The series' own slogan is "Not Every Conspiracy is a Theory". There are no prior assumptions about a rather weakly linked chain of events that begin with a suicide of a person who at the beginning we do not know or what his motive was in blowing his brains out . The conspiracy, if indeed, there is one, may be uncovered by bringing together different pieces of evidence in a limited time without forming any hypothesis. On the way to solving or at least clarifying the problem the hero, the team leader , is beset by unexpected setbacks, offset to some extent by even less expected chance revelations and/or inspirations without prejudice. This is an intelligent person's spy tale with a non-Hollywood ending that, instead leads to all sorts of speculation. The mostly American actors are superb, the script is well written and the music track pleasant and not annoying. This is not a James Bond or a 24 Hours fantasy, nor is it a John Le Carre film based on his novels. A small team of government analysts, all facing problems and different motives in their dysfunctional private lives, have links to the FBI and the CIA but work in a maverick way that the regular secret services cannot understand, The underfunded unit is looking into the case of a suspected terrorist and toils long hours in an obscure set of gloomy offices in a back street converted warehouse of lower Manhattan. They have to piece together a difficult jigsaw puzzle with many missing pieces in a slow painstaking way despite time being of the essence. The main characters are more than just interesting as each displays a range of human strengths and weaknesses. These are real people neither Hollywood glamor pusses nor the sort of cardboard images one too often sees in TV series. The unit shows an ability to work as a team sometimes and at cross purposes at others. Despite its deliberate pace and sobriety Rubicon has the necessary elements of love, back biting, and treachery. Unlike most other spy thrillers it is not drenched in action but not devoid of it either. Suicide, murder and mayhem as well as love, erotic sex and betrayal are here but do not dominate. All the usual salacious stuff that turns viewers on (or off) is soft pedaled and much left to the imagination. When one thinks about it the understatements in Rubicon are more pungent than the obvious sex and gore seen in most TV today. Some viewers may find Rubicon slow at first but my advice is wait until the DVD comes out, once the kids and maiden Aunt Edith have gone to bed Try and focus on the details and lines, and exchange of remarks (the advantage of DVDs over live TV is one has the ability to pause and go back).Rubicon was limited to one season of 13 of roughly one hour ad-free episodes. Some viewers may have been disappointed that AMC decided against a second season. However, I think the AMC folk were right. By the end of episode 13 the plot had developed as far as it could, with the hero and viewers left holding the final piece of the puzzle and wandering how it fits, although most of us will have a pretty good idea. The ending does leave the viewer in suspense but,thank God, at the end there is no Hercule Poirot smugly explaining in every detail how he came to his conclusion. it would have been clumsy to have gone on even five minutes longer than the actual final fade out.