Set in three distinct points in time, follow a class of FBI agents who grapple with immense changes as the U.S. criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence.
* 7.1 TMDB (118)CrimeDramaFantasyMysteryScience FictionUnited States
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Seasons and episodes
Miniseries
8 episodes · 2023
Episode 1. Part of Something
2023-05-10 · 49 min
The Class of '09 meets for the first time at Quantico. In the present, Agent Poet concludes her most challenging undercover operation only to be plunged into another. In the future, with the Bureau radically changed, Poet's career reaches…
Episode 2. The Fitness Test
2023-05-10 · 43 min
At Quantico, the Class of '09 must pass a physical fitness test or face expulsion. The trainee most at risk is Tayo, and as we see him struggle in the past, in the present, he faces one of the most dangerous threats the Bureau has ever…
Episode 3. Thank You for Not Driving
2023-05-17 · 47 min
At Quantico, Poet faces a challenging driving course. In the present, Poet's undercover operation brings the FBI to a critical juncture, while Tayo hunts down a domestic terrorist cell. In the future, Poet investigates the scope of Tayo's…
Episode 4. Not Your Girlfriend
2023-05-24 · 39 min
At Quantico, the Class of '09 faces the meaning of taking a life. In the present, the Agents must thwart a terrorist attack and to save lives, they must take a life. In the future, we come face to face with their trauma.
Episode 5. The Problem Is People
2023-05-31 · 40 min
In the past, as the Class of ’09 grapple with the complex history of the Bureau, Tayo meets the love of his life. In the present, we see how his dreams of making amends for the Bureau's history are threatening that love story. In the…
Episode 6. Hogan's Alley
2023-06-07 · 39 min
At Quantico, the Class of ’09 must complete the impossible challenges of Hogan's Alley. In the present, Poet, pursuing a deadly serial killer, is helped by an old friend. In the future, tragedy strikes and the justice system is no longer…
Episode 7. Orders Night
2023-06-14 · 48 min
At Quantico, the final tests before graduation are accompanied by a reveal of where the trainees will be posted. In the present, Tayo's extraordinary rise to power is propelled by artificial intelligence. In the future, Tayo falls from…
Episode 8. Graduation
2023-06-21 · 38 min
In the present, Tayo seizes control of the Bureau. In the future, the Class of ’09 reunites in a final showdown with the system they created. In the past, the trainees graduate, wondering where they will all end up.
The FX series Class Of '09 smartly layers the past, present, and future in telling this story. Introducing viewers to only two-time frames in the first five minutes made everything that happened in these first two episodes easier to absorb. Kate Mara's performance as Poet is so good that you are (easily) pulled into the third time frame (Present 2023) without it feeling disruptive.
You could argue that this story could have been just as good without the time jump. But it feels more attractive told this way and complements the dystopian part of the story set in 2034.
The showrunners, writers, and actors did a great job showing the good in 2009 and the ugly in 2034 but offered only a glimpse of the bad that's about to happen with a great cliffhanger at the end of episode two. This direction made it thrilling and fun to watch.
Structuring a series like this is difficult and often loses focus with all the back and forth, but this new limited series from FX may be the exception. I look forward to seeing how this story plays out.
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Damian Ali
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Story summarized on paper probably looks good, and if they have just keeped focus of the show on main core of the story it would be above average.
But unfortunately they figured that there could be two stories to tell. One about dangers of considering everyone a criminal and dangers of AI decisioning (at least something in those lines). The other story is about woman in danger, black people in danger and other woke stuff. I can't understand why take something that could be good and ruined it with wokenes.
Didn't filmmakers learned until now that we don't want movies and shows to show political ideologies down our throats? I personally am fead up with wokeness and I'm just stop watching in the middle of the show if that's the case. And it was the case with this one.
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