From Bill Harris of Sun Media:
- ‘Border’ sits on edge
“Personal admission: When we first saw The Border last season, we feared it might be too smart for a mass audience. ‘It’s a fine line to walk, right?’ said James McGowan, who plays Mike Kessler in The Border. The CBC series returns for its second season tonight on CBC.” Read more.
I think that the problem here, is that some Canadians want our homegrown espionage TV series to be excessively entertainment-oriented like – let’s say – “24”. However, as time went by, “24” did nothing more than piling up unrealistic situations and displaying a lack of depth (and the sixth season was a good proof and I hope that the seventh season will be better).
With that said, I think that “The Border” is not as boring as one may think. In fact, what I like about it is that it tells stories that are relatively close to our political reality without distorting it too much.