Counterpart (TV Series) Shaking the Tree (2018) User Reviews

Slow Moving? I Don't Think So

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 23 February 2020]

I know in our modern culture, our attention spans are so short. If there is not a major gunfight or car chase every fifteen minutes, people talk about how slow things are. Since that's the formula for about 95 percent of our entertainment, how about something more introspective and psychological. The strength of this show is that the characters are revealed bit by bit, faced with situations they must maneuver through. Think for a minute the milieu they are thrust into or are trying to control. I thought there was extensive effort at characterization in this episode. We also are let in on some activities perpetrated in secrecy that will drive things forward.

There are no sides. We all go to the same hell.

[dreamingescapist · 19 July 2019]

Howards continue their investigation in each other's worlds. While Prime Howard is trying to find the mole inside the agency, Alpha Howard concentrates more on personal stuff.

'Shaking the Tree' widens the conspiracy about the Cold War between two worlds. We also get more knowledge about the Prime World, and about its history, and why some people see the Alpha World as their enemy. A continuously strong episode, but I liked this one because Aldrich got more screentime and Ulrich Thomsen was criminally underused so-far.

Shaking the Tree

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 30 March 2018]

Overall this show is fairly enjoyable, but it seems to be stuck in a pattern of moving at a slow pace. Maybe by design, maybe not, but we need something to happen soon.

I am intrigued, but we can only see the same thing week to week for so long.