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Airdate: Patriot

US drama Patriot, starring Aussie Michael Dorman, premieres on Amazon Prime.

US drama Patriot, starring Aussie Michael Dorman and Terry Quinn premieres on Amazon Prime this Friday.

The series, which looks at the unglamorous aspects of life as an intelligence officer, was recently renewed for a second season.

It premiered in the US in February.

The series follows the complicated life of intelligence officer John Tavner (Australian newcomer Michael Dorman, Wonderland). His latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous “non-official cover” that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm. A bout with PTSD, the Federal government’s incompetence and the intricacies of keeping a day job in the “front” industrial piping company cause a barrage of ever-escalating fiascos that jeopardise Tavner’s mission. Patriot is in large part about the lesser known, unglamorous aspects of life as an intelligence officer deep undercover with work that frequently places John in untenable situations where he’s often forced to choose between bad alternatives. The unraveling of a plan, and the effort to conceal that unraveling, causes matters to complicate further.

The series also stars Terry O’Quinn (Lost) as Tom Tavner, John’s State Department Director of Intelligence father, Michael Chernus (Orange is the New Black), as John’s older brother Edward Tavner, a young Texas congressman, Kathleen Munroe (Call Me Fitz), as John’s wife Alice, Aliette Opheim (Sandor slash Ida) as Agathe, a brilliant young homicide detective from Luxembourg hot on John’s trail, and Kurtwood Smith (That 70s Show) as Mr. Claret, John’s stickler of a new “boss” at the piping firm. Patriot is written and directed by Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Weather Man), and executive produced by Conrad, James Parriott (Grey’s Anatomy), Glenn Ficarra (Crazy Stupid Love, Focus), John Requa (Crazy Stupid Love, Focus), Charlie Gogolak (Focus) and Gil Bellows (Temple Grandin).

Patriot will be available with both subtitles and dubbing in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese available at launch.

Friday on Amazon Prime Video.

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