10 Upcoming Amazon Original TV Shows To Be Excited About

8. Patriot

Patriot Terry O'Quinn
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A spy procedural? A dark comedy? A show that finds an excuse for its lead to indulge in plenty of folk singing?

Amazon's Patriot is set to be a strange beast, which is probably the best thing for it, a way of setting it apart from the endless number of identikit procedurals on network television.

Michael Dorman plays John Tavner, an intelligence officer tasked with stopping Iran from going nuclear, to achieve which he must assume a “non-official cover” as a mid-level employee at a industrial piping firm in Milwaukee. To deal with the stress of it all he gets high, and sings folk songs about working undercover. To make things better this father is his assigning officer, and played by Lost alum Terry O'Quinn.

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.