EPISODE
The Brink - Season 1
The Brink focuses on a geopolitical crisis and its effect on three disparate and desperate men: Walter Larson, the US Secretary of State. Alex Talbot, a lowly Foreign Service officer; and Zeke Tilson, an ace Navy fighter pilot. These three compromised souls must pull through the chaos around them to save the planet from World War Three.
3 December 1980, Oneonta, New York, USA
13 November 1956, Spearman, Texas, USA
25 November 1947, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21 March 1982, Loma Linda, California, USA
21 February 1957, Sweetwater, Tennessee, USA
June 19, 2015
Yawn. Unfortunately, The Brink feels like a would-be daring political comedy that's lacking in insight and light on laughs.
June 22, 2015
The dialogue is smart, biting and sporadically funny as it convincingly argues that its strange fiction is truth and turns the wartime stuff of our nightmares into the blackest of comedy.
June 19, 2015
What robs The Brink of much sustaining interest is the underlying cynicism that serves as the motive of almost every person here, and which comes across as a cheap excuse for avoiding deeper characterization.
June 19, 2015
Fans of Veep will point out that it's funnier and more psychologically acute than The Brink, but its season is over. You watch the shows you have.
June 19, 2015
The humor's not nearly as pointed as it is in "Veep," but if you like Jack Black being Jack Black, you should like him here, too.
June 19, 2015
Whatever your politics, The Brink hits its targets with devastating relish.
June 18, 2015
This is one of the most star-studded disappointments in recent TV memory, an awkward political comedy that mistakes raunchy humor for intelligence and only reminds one how hard it is to pull off something with real teeth like Veep.
June 19, 2015
It takes a little time for the show to get its bearings. But both Robbins and Black are soon up to speed and off the rails.
June 17, 2015
This series really takes chances with its casting, and those chances really pay off.