#Sarah Wayne Callies as Birdie Nicoletti

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Sarah Wayne Callies as Birdie Nicoletti The Company You Keep 1.01 Pilot

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The Company You Keep (2023) - 1x02

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Charlie saying "Prison break's not really my thing" while the camera is on Birdie aka Sarah Wayne Callies aka Sara Scofield... I see what you did there 😌

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🔺 The Company You Keep - The Real Thing - Review🔺

This week’s episode of The Company You Keep is an hour of television that sinks its claws into the very depths of your heart and rips it wide open. And in this episode, no one is safe from the heartache left behind.

Read my review via @spoilertv:

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‘Here’s a quick rundown of the premise of ABC’s The Company You Keep: Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us) plays Charlie Nicoletti. The Nicolettis — sister Birdie (Sarah Wayne Callies), father Leo (William Fichtner), and mother Fran (Polly Draper) — are a family of con artists and thieves. In the opening episode, they con a crime family, The Maguires, out of $10 million, but Charlie’s fiancée cons him out of the money and disappears.

The Maguires realize that they’ve been snookered and demand that the Nicolettis repay them under the threat of violence. Daphne Finch (Felisha Terrell) runs point for the Maguire family to ensure repayment. The Nicolettis arrange a series of cons in order to pay back their debt — their deal seems to be that they only rob bad people, so our allegiances are never tested.

Meanwhile, Charlie also falls in love with Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim). He doesn’t know she’s a CIA officer. She doesn’t know he’s a thief. But as they fall harder in love, their paths outside of their romantic relationship come dangerously close to crossing, as she’s investigating the very crime family to whom the Nicolettis are indebted.

That’s it. There’s some Mr. and Mrs. Smith prequel energy, a lot of cons, some very attractive people, a romance, and some politics, too (Emma’s brother is running for their dad’s Senate seat). These action-adventure romances don’t have a history of working well enough on television to justify their budgets (who remembers Whiskey Tango?), but there are no extravagant location shoots or expensive special effects in The Company You Keep: It largely gets by on the charms of Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim, who make a sexy and believable couple, and the breezy, lightweight tone.

The writing is decent, too, although it falls prey to a problem that plagues a lot of series that require missions, heists, or cons every week, which is to say: They’re not particularly well constructed. They feel like cons, the actors behave as though they’re pulling off cons, and the action and music suggest cons, but there’s not a lot of actual conning going on. They’re like the manilla folders in Suits: Simple plot devices, which is fine, but I do wish they’d put more thought into the details.

Ultimately, it’s a better-than-decent thriller-action-romance, and for people who only subscribe to basic cable (and none of the streamers or premium channels), it’s as close as you’re going to get to prestige television on Sunday nights. For everyone else, it’s a welcome break from the prestige dramas on the streamers and premium channels on Sunday nights.’

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Sarah Wayne Callies as Birdie Nicoletti The Company You Keep 1.03 A Sparkling Reputation

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Sarah Wayne Callies as Birdie Nicoletti The Company You Keep 1.02 A Sparkling Reputation

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The Company You Keep (2023) - 1x02

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🔺 The Company You Keep - A Sparkling Reputation AND Against All Odds - Review🔺

The stakes are getting higher on The Company You Keep, recently posing the question, “can you be in love with someone you’re lying to?” The answer? Yes, but not without complications, or consequences.

Read my double review of episodes 2 and 3 here via @spoilertv:

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🔺 The Company You Keep - All In AND The Spy Who Loved Me - Review🔺

The Company You Keep continues to shock viewers in the best of ways with twist after twist & more-than-swoon-worthy moments between Emma & Charlie, Hilletti as fans have dubbed them. Read my double review of the last two eps here via @spoilertv: