Privileged Lennix sees this as a gateway to his political aspirations while Hour, daughter of Iranian immigrants, sees this as an opportunity to feel part of a country that has too often treated her as an outsider. As they learn evasive driving, firearms management and participate in fitness drills, we learn that they each have their own backstories, or backstories borrowed from genre archetypes. The “Past” segment is especially familiar, as we meet our main characters and watch them go through the most basic of exploratory lessons.
The series’ directors, starting with Joe Robert Cole and Sunu Gonera, establish momentum, but struggle to make the individual pieces feel distinctive. This, though, feels like one of those instances in which the trickiness of the split storylines becomes a cover for the sense that, through the four episodes sent to critics, none of the three timelines would be close to interesting enough to sustain interest. It seems like a wholly logical combination of narrative interests for Smith, who made intricate and emotionally effective use of inverted chronology in his American Crime Story season and built his career as a novelist on twisty espionage thrillers. In 2034 - “The Future” - Tayo has become the director of the FBI and it’s quickly made clear that Something Very Bad happened in “The Present,” which led to the proliferation of an AI system that has made people safer. In 2023 - “The Present” - we see the agents at work, including Tayo’s investigation into a Montana separatist organization, Hour’s development of a powerful new database, and a troubling new assignment for Poet. Smith), as well as their instructors (Brooke Smith and Jon Jon Briones). In 2009 - “The Past” - we meet the new prospective agents at Quantico, including Poet (Mara), Tayo (Henry), Hour (Sepideh Moafi) and Lennix (Brian J. And although the series gets a small dose of relevance from its treatment of AI-driven, predictive law enforcement, even that feels like a decently executed remnant from an assortment of broadcast failures rather than something creatively urgent. In the broadest of strokes, that’s the logline for Class of ’09 as well. Quantico, which ran three seasons, used multiple timelines to introduce viewers to a fresh group of FBI trainees and then, in the future, show that class responding to a shocking attack that one of them may be blamed for. Cast: Brian Tyree Henry, Kate Mara, Brian J.
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