With every new motion thriller collection, Amazon is little question chasing that Reacher dragon. Whereas the most recent try didn’t fairly attain the identical heights because the adventures of Alan Ritchson’s nomadic avenger (and even proved to be deeply divisive amongst critics and audiences), Prime Video’s latest motion hero has a brilliant future forward of him, in keeping with the present’s creator.
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Derek Haas, the creator and author behind this yr’s Countdown, has declared his hopes and pleasure over the way forward for the motion collection, which finds Supernatural and The Boys star Jensen Ackles main the best way as a maverick undercover LAPD officer who finds himself on the heart of a darkish conspiracy. And the clock is ticking.
“I’m feeling good. I haven’t finished streaming earlier than, so form of all the analytics are new. It’s completely different from after I was doing community and also you knew the subsequent morning, like, oh, that is doing nice, no matter. However I’m excited as a result of it appears like we proceed to choose up viewers each week and in order that will get me all excited.”
Derek Haas Reveals How Many ‘Countdown’ Seasons He Needs…and It’s Doubtlessly a Lot
Whereas it has not but been confirmed whether or not Countdown will return for Season 2, the collection has been one other huge motion success for Prime Video. Regardless of a divisive response (38% from critics alongside 73% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes), the collection shortly shot up the charts to the #1 spot and has held agency within the Prime 10 ever since. Requested what number of seasons he envisions for Countdown, Haas revealed that, as long as individuals hold watching, he’ll hold discovering harmful situations and throwing Ackles’ Detective Mark Meachum into them.
“I mentioned this earlier than with ‘Chicago Hearth’ method again when. I used to be like, so long as individuals hold exhibiting up, we’ll hold making it. Now did I feel that may go for 14 years? I had no thought. So I’ll say the identical factor about this: So long as individuals hold watching and digging it, then we are going to hold making it.”
Created by Derek Haas (FBI: Worldwide, Chicago P.D.), Countdown stars Jensen Ackles alongside Eric Dane (Gray’s Anatomy, Dangerous Boys: Trip or Die), Jessica Camacho (Watchmen), Violett Beane (Loss of life and Different Particulars), Elliot Knight (The Boys), and Uli Latukefu (Younger Rock). You may take a look at the synopsis for Countdown under.
“When an officer with the Division of Homeland Safety is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Ackles), is recruited to a secret activity pressure, alongside undercover brokers from all branches of legislation enforcement, to research. However the hunt for the killer quickly uncovers a plot way more sinister than anybody might have imagined, kicking off a race towards time to save lots of a metropolis of hundreds of thousands.”
Regardless of the divisive response, the collection has impressed some, with CBR’s Joshua M. Patton calling it “recent, shocking storytelling,” whereas JoBlo’s Alex Maidy calls it “enjoyable, quick, and largely acquainted, however with simply the proper tweaks to maintain you watching from episode to episode.” Nevertheless, others couldn’t have been extra dissatisfied, with Fandomwire’s Callie Hanna calling the present “agonizingly uninteresting.”
Supply: TV Insider, CBR, JoBlo, Fandomwire
Countdown
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June 25, 2025
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Prime Video
