ORBzine - 2004 UK Television Review: "Jake 2.0"

ORBzine - Jake 2.0 TV Review

Christopher Gorham as Jake Foley
Marina Black as Sarah Heywood
Matt Czuchry as Darin Metcalf
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Agent Kyle Duarte
Judith Scott as Deputy Director Louise Beckett
Keegan Connor Tracy as Dr. Diane Hughes
Season 1

Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 1] The Tech
Shown 10 Sep 03
pilot ep nerd [NSA tech support] accidental nanites
nerdy "6 mil usd man", love interest = investigator.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 2] Training Day
Shown 17 Sep 03
Jake doesn't have instincts of a secret agent.
terrorist [eng-accented arab] has EMP bomb
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 3] Cater Waiter
Shown 24 Sep 03
PRC steals tank designs.
Bai Ling is the Agency's contact in Embassy.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 4] Arms and the Girl
Shown 1 Oct 03
Jake on stakeout, dates arms dealer's daughter.
Morality? CIA murder squads and mil-indust complex vs Free Market.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 5] The Good, The Bad, and The Geeky
Shown 8 Oct 03
anarchist hacker conspiracy, Jake goes undercover.
One of the conspirators is Carly Pope [Sam McPherson from Popular].
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 6] Last Man Standing
Shown 15 Oct 03
friend's wedding. blonde pal has new BF.
Doc = Jake's date.
Agent White [ Dark Angel ] stalks Jake.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 7] Jerry 2.0
Shown 29 Oct 03
There's a new intro [latino boss v/o].
Militia bombers are active in DC.
Worse, Jake's slacker teen bro Jerry is in town.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 8] Middleman
Shown 5 Nov 03
The Doc has BF.
A Villainous kidnapper is in town.
Jake and the blonde hot up.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 9] Whisky Tango Foxtrot
Shown 12 Nov 03
Black boss woman = ex-Army Wolfpackblack-ops team suspected of stealing nukes.
Jake must pal up with troopers like Lochlyn Munro [ Jason vs Freddy] for General James McDaniel [ Taken].
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 10] The Spy Who Really Liked Me
Shown 19 Nov 03
Laura Harris [the blonde from The Faculty ] steals US Nerve Gas.
The ep has cynical bookends about Jim Byrnes [ Highlander ] committee.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 11] Prince and the Revolution
Shown 10 Dec 03
Jake plays BG to college student afro Prince. There's a Revolt in his country, cynical view of NSA.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 12] Double Agent
Shown 17 Dec 03
The Agency is after an ex-KGB woman renegade. They re-hire a retired 6 mil USD man, Lee Majors.
She's too beautiful, yung and photogenic to be a convincing soviet fanatic - should be 44yo.
There's a lot of Foreshadowing of the eevil of the NSA.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 13] Blackout
Shown in UK, not USA
Jake wakes up, amnesia and wife
There's a virus in NSA mainframe.
Dumont [ref to Valmont, Cruel Intentions].
Jake's mistrust of NSA, open-ended
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 14] Get Foley
Shown in UK, not USA
Jake becomes an amnesiac pit-fighter [Monty Cora style]. The doc babe goes to help him [against orders]. Her Oriental assistant [ Grace Park ] covers for her.
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 15] Dead Man Talking
Shown in UK, not USA
Cameron Bancroft [ Codename Eternity ] is on team, to rescue Clayton Rohner [ G Vs E].
Rohner's the boss's ex. Makes you wonder what the policy on intra-Agency relationships is.
Jake ends up in a coma, but can control things like HAL in 2001 .
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Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 16] Upgrade
Shown in UK, not USA
Yakuza assassins [Robin Shou] after ambassador.
He wanted to shag Tracey, who's shocked he's not a eunuch.
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