Say what you want about Todd Phillips' Joker, but curiosity and fandom don't power you to over a billion dollars. It takes a character who taps into the zeitgeist, and as time has gone on, Batman's arch-nemesis has constantly threatened to overshadow the Caped Crusader. Like Batman, Joker is a pretty malleable figure. There are some baseline rules in terms of his appearance and demeanor just like modern Batman needs a cape and a cave, but recent popular iterations have seized on how he reflects times of crisis (The Dark Knight) or the shortcomings of society (Joker). …
Created by Ken Woodruff (Gotham, The Mentalist), the new NBC series The Enemy Within is a psychological thriller that follows Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter), a brilliant former CIA operative who is now known as one of the biggest traitors in recent American history. When the FBI has to track down a very dangerous and elusive terrorist, they realize that they must get Shepherd our of the Supermax prison where she’s serving a life sentence, so that she can help them catch the same criminal who directly lead her down the path to treason. During this 1-on-1 phone …
NBC's The Enemy Within begins with a stat: “The FBI estimates there are one hundred thousand foreign spies working within the United States today….More than any other time in history.” Now, I'm no analyst, but I can pretty confidently estimate that it feels like there are roughly the same amount of FBI and/or CIA-themed espionage shows airing on TV right now [dramatic pause] more than any other time in history. The Americans recently come to a close, but there is still Killing Eve, Whiskey Cavalier, Criminal Minds, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Gone, FBI, and …