Mikes Film Talk

Turn: AMC Look at History of U.S. Spy Trade (Review)

Turn, which is the AMC look at the history of the spy trade in the American war of independence, replaces The Walking Dead over the summer. Certainly the whole thing starts quite well, with a man escaping by the skin of his teeth from the King’s mercenary troops by the clever device of borrowing a dead man’s coat. A man that said escapee just killed and who almost gets caught because he doesn’t respond to an owl hoot signal by the head mercenary.