Citadel review: Amazon Prime’s high-octane spy thriller

Costing a reported $250m, this six-part drama is ‘basically televisual crack’

Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas star in Citadel
Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas star in Citadel
(Image credit: Amazon Prime Video)

This six-part drama reportedly cost Amazon Prime “somewhere north of $250m”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. So was it worth it? “You betcha. It’s Mission: Impossible meets The Bourne Identity meets James Bond while glancing off Indiana Jones a few times along its irresistible way.”

Richard Madden stars as Mason Kane, a spy for a global espionage network, whom we first see causing chaos on a train with his “permanently pouting” partner and ex-wife (Priyanka Chopra Jonas). The drama then skips forward eight years, with our agents now living normal lives in separate cities with no memory of their previous existence as swashbuckling spies.

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