“When considering the simple pleasures of the “John Wick” movies, character development and dense back story would rate somewhere below the bottom of the list.
“The world of streaming, however, favors the long winded, a factor much in evidence in “The Continental: From the World of John Wick,” a handsomely produced but unnecessary prequel Peacock miniseries with a Keanu Reeves-shaped donut hole.
“Set in the 1970s, the three-part project (the time commitment that suggests is a bit misleading, since each chapter running well over an hour) derives its biggest kick from the very savvily selected period song score, nicely setting the mood of a gritty, shadowy New York during the disco years.””
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