History Series / AmericanOdyssey

''American Odyssey'' is an {{Creator/NBC}} TV series which centers around three separate milieux, exemplified in these characters:

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* AdultFear:
** A man in Delaware loosely connected to the conspiracy has his wife and child threatened unless he stays quiet.
** Peter Decker realizes his family is at risk [[spoiler:when he discovers that Societele and Simons-Wachtel have detailed knowledge of his son's and daughter's movements and social circles. It gets worse when he (correctly) suspects that a teenage boy flirting with his daughter is also tied to said companies.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: Bob Offer.

* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler:Ruby.]]

* HollywoodHacking: Bob's ability to crack iPhone passwords.

* ImplacableMan: Frank Majors, the OSELA mercenary hunting Odelle in Mali.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The OSELA merc does this to [[spoiler:Skakir Khan]].

* MacGuffin: Odelle's flash drive.

* StraightGay: The Malian General (Diallo), who is the secret lover of Aslam's uncle.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Episode titles, which borrow from military slang, include "Kmag Yoyo" (kiss my ass goodbye, you're on your own), "Figmo" (fuck it, got my orders), and "Fubar Bundy" (fucked up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet).

* YourCheatingHeart: Peter Decker had an affair with Sophia Tsaldari prior to the start of the series.

''American Odyssey'' is an {{Creator/NBC}} TV Series which centers around three separate milieux, exempilified in these characters:

* Peter Decker as a corporate lawyer who has stumbled on another piece of the conspiracy while trying to head off a potential IRS investigation into questionable tax avoidance behavior by said megacorporation

** Peter Decker realizes his family is at risk [[spoiler:when he discovers Societele and Simons-Wachtel have detailed knowledge of his son's and daughter's movements and social circles. It gets worse when he (correctly) suspects that a teenage boy flirting with his daughter is also tied to said companies]].
* AffablyEvil: Colonel Stephen Glenn, Odelle's commanding officer. It's never explained why he is absolutely determined to silence Odelle by any means necessary despite their close relationship prior to the drone attack, but he does everything he can to keep Odelle's survival a secret from her family. [[spoiler:Failing that, he tries to plead with Odelle one last time to lie to the New York Times reporter]].

* CooperationGambit: Aslam and Odelle start out this way, with wary TeethClenchedTeamwork. [[spoiler:By the third episode, "Drop King", they have evolved to calling each other friends]].
** FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler:After they finally flee Mali, Aslam struggles with his new and uncertain future, adamantly refusing to let Luc or Odelle make the decision for him. At the last second, he decides to go with Odelle]].

** BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:All three leads do fulfill their main goals, but not without a lot of fallout to deal with. Peter's quest for the truth is successful, but now he has to begin the process of putting his family back together. Harrison gets a byline in the New York Times, but is also severely traumatized and can barely come to terms with killing Ruby. Odelle has made it back to the United States using Isabel's identity, but she's still a fugitive, separated from her family, and is being hunted down by her former commanding officer]].
* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler:Ruby]].

* HoneyTrap: Exploited in order to spy on Decker's family. [[spoiler:Societele is paying Cameron, Maya's attractive boyfriend, to go out with her as a way to rattle her father and get information about the family]].
* ImplacableMan: Frank Majors, the Osela mercenary hunting Odelle in Mali.

* IronicEcho: When Odelle is being interrogated by Omar, he mentions studying at the University of Michigan, and says, "Go blue". Later, when Odelle reveals she understands Arabic, she mockingly chants back, "Go blue!" in that language.

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in the case of [[spoiler: Odelle Ballard's unit and Harrison's father.]]

* TheMole: The hired assassin [[spoiler: Ruby, who masquerades as a freelance reporter.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Odelle [[spoiler: hadn't given the pills to the wounded boy, she wouldn't have ended up needing to kill his father.]]
* OhCrap: Harrison is so hyped up [[spoiler: that he doesn't check the email sent to him by Bob, which completely wrecks his credibility, when he live-tweets the equivalent of a rickrolling.]]

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Odelle and her companion Aslam (who is Tuareg), have to choose between her certain death [[spoiler: at the hands of the Tuareg pilgrims]], or being captured alive [[spoiler: by the Ansar Dine militants.]] Appropriately, the writers did intend the series to be a modernized, American retelling of Homer's epic.
* SequelHook: Some plot lines are left purposely unresolved, such as: [[spoiler: What Odelle was doing to hide before she got back to the USA, as well as where Aslam went after going into Barcelona.]]
* StraightGay: The Malian General (Diallo) who is the secret lover of Aslam's uncle.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: How Ruby decides to go out. Harrison's flashbacks in the finale, however, imply that he might have been the real killer.]]

* HollywoodLaw: In New York the age of consent is 17, so the 21-year old guy worrying he's just committed statutory rape with a 17-year old girl needn't be.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Episode titles, which borrow from military slang, include "Kmag Yoyo" (kiss my ass goodbye, you're on your own), "Figmo" (fuck it, got my orders), and "Fubar Bundy" (fucked up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet).

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A subplot in Season 1 involves a populist Greek politician, who intends to use any leverage she can get over Societele, to repudiate Greek debt. As of 2015, a left-wing government in Greece is making Euro sovereign debt holders nervous, over the legitimacy of the Greek national debt.

* YourCheatingHeart: Peter Decker had an affair with Sophia Tsaldari, prior to the start of the series.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The CEO of SOC, who had a war veteran run over to protect his secrets, walks in front of a bus after they are exposed.]]

* LoverTugOfWar: Anna is visibly annoyed, at the way Ruby is rather openly, hitting on Harrison in front of her.