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''The Terminal List'' is an American action thriller television series based on Creator/JackCarr's 2018 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of his family. It stars Creator/ChrisPratt (who also serves as an executive producer), Creator/ConstanceWu, Creator/TaylorKitsch, Creator/RileyKeough, Creator/ArloMertz, and Creator/JeanneTripplehorn. ''The Terminal List'' was released on Amazon Prime Video on July 1, 2022. The series is scheduled to have a second season, based on the novel ''True Believer''. This also include a series that centers on Ben's activities prior the show's events.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Ben is an active member of the conspiracy in the book and secretly helps to try to assassinate Reece. In the show, he abandons the conspiracy after they murder Reece's family and assists him in killing each of them out of a sense of guilt (though Reece still kills him after learning of his involvement.)]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Season 1 ends with Reece manages to uncover the conspiracy and avenge the deaths of his men and family. But when he realizes that his best friend Ben was involved in it and forces him to [[MercyKill put out of his misery by shooting him in the head without putting up a fight]]. Not to mention that he is suffering from Cancer and has few years to live and wander off to parts unknown while law enforcement is still hunting him down]].

* MilesGloriosus: Steve Horn fancies himself a soldierly badass, and bolsters this image via SEAL tattoos and combat training sessions, even though he never actually served. [[spoiler:All of that chutzpah quickly disappears once Horn is finally faced with Reece]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Season 1 end s with Reece manages to uncover the conspiracy and avenge the deaths of his men and family. But when he realizes that his best friend Ben was involved in it and forces him to [[MercyKill put out of his misery by shooting him in the head without putting up a fight]]. Not to mention that he is suffering from Cancer and has few years to live and wander off to parts unknown]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Reece manages to uncover the conspiracy and avenge the deaths of his men and family. But when he realizes that his best friend Ben was involved in it and forces him to [[MercyKill put out of his misery by shooting him in the head without putting up a fight]]. Not to mention that he is suffering from Cancer and has few years to live and wander off to parts unknown]].

''The Terminal List'' is an American action thriller television series based on Creator/JackCarr's 2018 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of his family. It stars Creator/ChrisPratt (who also serves as an executive producer), Creator/ConstanceWu, Creator/TaylorKitsch, Creator/RileyKeough, Creator/ArloMertz, and Creator/JeanneTripplehorn. ''The Terminal List'' was released on Amazon Prime Video on July 1, 2022.

The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Creator/ChrisPratt) after his platoon of Navy [=SEALs=] are ambushed while on a covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The novel, being released in 2018, set Odin's Sword in Afghanistan before all US forces completely withdrew from the country. The series was released in 2022, a year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and thus places Odin's Sword in Syria.

''The Terminal List'' is an American action thriller television series based on Creator/JackCarr 2018 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of his family. It stars Creator/ChrisPratt (who also serves as an executive producer), Creator/ConstanceWu, Creator/TaylorKitsch, Creator/RileyKeough, Creator/ArloMertz, and Creator/JeanneTripplehorn. The Terminal List was released on Amazon Prime Video on July 1, 2022.

* AFatherToHisMen: Reece was this to his team before they were all killed.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Hartly is initially presented as empathetic towards Reece's immense loss of his team and family, until she's revealed to be the mastermind behind the entire plot.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[spoiler: Hartly is far more courteous and kind in the series then her book counterpart, who is noted to be imposing and insensitive and throws her power around to get what she wants.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never made completely clear who detonated the tunnel explosives that killed most of Reece's team. Reece initially remembers their SDF guide triggering the tripwire in panic, but the NCIS investigation convinces him that it was one of his own teammates, [[spoiler: though the NCIS is deliberately trying to frame the team for their own demise and Reece's memories of the mission become increasingly conflicting due to his brain tumor.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Reece is capable of taking down PMCs, Cartels, and FBI agents whether he is with himself or with his fellow soldier Edwards. He is also a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy, specifically the Navy SEALs.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Lorraine Hartley. She gives Reece an order to do a covert mission which lead to the deaths of some of Reese's men through letting them drink a FantasticDrug which possibly gives them cure for PTSD but it gives them cancer instead. Although she is a part of a conspiracy alongside Steve Horn, Mike Tedesco, and ultimately, Ben Edwards.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Reese manages to uncover the conspiracy and avenge the deaths of his men and family. But when he realizes that his best friend Ben was involved in it and forces him to [[MercyKill put out of his misery by shooting him in the head without putting up a fight]]. Not to mention that he is suffering from Cancer and has few years to live and wander off to parts unknown]].
* CassandraTruth: Reece suspects foul play in Operation Odin's Sword and Boozer's supposed suicide from the beginning, [[spoiler: but due to the deliberate efforts of Secretary Hartly and Admiral Pilsner to cover up the mission, he's branded as an unhinged terrorist.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Steve Horn shapes about to be one, but dies at the end of episode five.]]
* FantasticDrug: Reece and his men take up an experimental drug manufactured by Capstone Industries which makes them cure from PTSD but it gives them cancer instead.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When Katie Buranek attempts to publish an expose about TheConspiracy, Senator Hartley invites her to her fortified island to "tell her side of the story" while waiting for Reece. However, Katie doesn't buy Hartly's story and successfully records her confession so Hartley attempts to have her killed, but is interrupted by Reece and Ben's attack. Then when it seems that Katie is succeeding in talking Reece into letting the law deal with her, Hartley opts to [[DrivenToSuicide commit]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled suicide]] rather than face any consequences.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Reece was this to his team, before they're all killed.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Reece is capable of taking down PMCs, Cartels, and FBI agents whether he is with himself or with his fellow soldier Edwards. He also happens to be a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy, specifically the Navy SEALs.

* CassandraTruth: Reece suspects foul play in Operation Odin's Sword and Boozer's supposed suicide from the beginning, [[spoiler: but due to the deliberate efforts of the Secretary Hartly and Admiral Pilsner to cover up the mission, he's branded as an unhinged terrorist.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Steve Horn is the CEO of the Capstone Industries and is completely a massive JerkAss.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The novel, being released in 2018, set Odin's Sword in Afghanistan, before all US forces completely withdrew from the country. The series was released in 2022, a year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and thus places Odin's Sword in Syria.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After surviving an ambush which was perpetuated by his fellow countrymen, Reece is willing to uncover their dirty secrets by mercilessly killing his enemies.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Reece suffers from PTSD and fatigue from fighting in Afghanistan. That's the reason why he accepts Horn's offer to take up the drug that allegedly cures his PTSD along with his men with encouragement from Ben.

* RealityWritesThePlot: The novel, being released in 2018, set Odin's Sword in Afghanistan, before all US forces completely withdrew from the country. The series was released in 2022, a year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and thus places Odin's Sword in Syria.

* CassandraTruth: Reece suspects foul play in Operation Odin's Sword and Boozer's supposed suicide from the beginning, [[spoiler: but due to the deliberate efforts of the Secretary Hartly and Admiral Pilsner to cover up the mission, he's branded as an unhinged terrorist.

* AntiHero: Reese is willing to use questionable methods in order to exact revenge on the people who killed his team and family. He also shows no mercy when his victims cannot fight like putting a bullet on [[spoiler: Steve Horn's head]], strapping his CO with a bomb when he realizes that he was involved in the ambush that kills his men, and torture a conspirator to death. The only instance he shows any sympathy is [[spoiler: when he realizes that Ben was involved in the conspiracy and MercyKill him by shooting him in the head.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Lorraine Hartley. She gives Reese an order to do a covert mission which lead to the deaths of some of Reese's men through letting them drink a FantasticDrug which possibly gives them cure for PTSD but it gives them cancer instead. Although she is a part of a conspiracy alongside Steve Horn, Mike Tedesco, and ultimately, Ben Edwards.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After surviving an ambush which was perpetuated by his fellow countrymen, Reese is willing to uncover their dirty secrets by mercilessly killing his enemies.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Reese suffers from PTSD and fatigue from fighting in Afghanistan. That's the reason why he accepts Horn's offer to take up the drug that allegedly cures his PTSD along with his men with encouragement from Ben.

The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Creator/ChrisPratt ) after his platoon of Navy SEAL's are ambushed while on a covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

* FantasticDrug: Reece and his men take up an experimental drug manufactured by Capstone Enterprises which makes them cure from PTSD but it gives them cancer instead.

* AntiHero: Reese is willing to harm innocents in order to exact revenge on the people who killed his team and family. He also shows no mercy when his victims cannot fight like putting a bullet on [[spoiler: Steve Horn's head]], strapping his CO with a bomb when he realizes that he was involved in the ambush that kills his men, and torture a conspirator to death.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Reese manages to uncover the conspiracy and avenge the deaths of his men and family. But when he realizes that his best friend Ben was involved in it and forces him to [[MercyKill put out of his misery by shooting him in the head without putting up a fight]]. Not to mention that he is suffering from Cancer and has few years to live and wander to parts unknown]].

The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece ( Creator/ChrisPratt ) after his platoon of Navy SEAL's are ambushed while on a covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

* AntiHero: Reese is willing to harm innocents in order to exact revenge on the people who killed his team and family. He also shows no mercy when his victims cannot fight like putting a bullet on [[spoiler: Steve Horn's head]].

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Lorraine Hartley. She gives Reese an order to do a covert mission which lead to the deaths of some of Reese's men through letting them drink a FantasticDrug which possibly gives them cure for PTSD but it gives them cancer instead.]]

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The Terminal List is an American action thriller television series based on Jack Carr's 2018 novel of the same name.[1] The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of his family. It stars Chris Pratt (who also serves as an executive producer), Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The Terminal List was released on Amazon Prime Video on July 1, 2022.

The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Chris Pratt) after his platoon of Navy SEAL's are ambushed while on a covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Chris Pratt) after his platoon of Navy SEALs are ambushed while on a covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

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