This series actually is rather dull until the third episode. I feel it is a mistake to consider this the Hotel of John Wick, since it was under different management, and apparently different control by the High Table. Yes, it is a hotel that John Wick used, and all the dark aspects may be little changed, but it was not the Continental of Winston and Charon, although a young Charon was there with Cormac. It starts out with flashback of a very young Winston and his brother Frankie, desperately poor. We then find Frankie has something that the High Table really, really wants, and nothing is spared to find it, and Frankie is killed. After all, Cormac is given a deadline to get it back, and his life is at stake. This leads Winston to plot to kill Cormac. But that poses severe problems, since an attempt will result in allowing all the different guests of the Hotel to come out to defend it against the intruders once an alarm is pressed. And considering the guests the Hotel caters to, not a pleasant thing. So Winston needs to take on allies and have inside information. So the first two episodes lay the groundwork for how he hopes to do it. Anyone who knows anything about the John Wick franchise knows it was successful but episode three shows the approach, the setbacks and the cost in lives to do that attempt. And it delivers. And there is the apparent 'trademark' of not leaving any deaths in doubt, just as John Wick makes sure.
Review of The Continental
