Amazon Prime released its Chris Pratt-led series adaptation of former Navy SEAL turned author Jack Carr’s novel “The Terminal List” for the July 4th holiday weekend.
Critics decidedly did not like the show which scored a 40/100 on Metacritic, but audience scores on that site were much higher at 9.1/10. It’s a similar story at Rotten Tomatoes with critics giving it a 43% score compared to users who gave it a 95% score.
Carr himself has now spoken about the critical response in an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday. Asked about the discrepancy between the reactions, Carr appears to suggest that it comes down to politics:
“It falls right in line with everything that I understand about the current culture and climate in America right now. It seems to have triggered quite a few of these critics. The 95 percent viewer rating, audience rating, makes it all worth it. We didn’t make it for the critics. We made it for those in the arena.
We made it for the soldier, sailor, airman and Marine that went downrange to Iraq and Afghanistan, so they could sit on the couch and say, ‘Hey, these guys put in the work. They put in the effort to make something special and make a show that speaks to them.’ And that 95 percent rating lets me know that we at least got close.”
Carr is an executive producer of the series alongside Pratt and Antoine Fuqua. Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch and Riley Keough also star in the series.
Source THR
