Pov: You're walking down the street and you see THIS Hottie also walking down the street...what's your first reaction?

Me: I'm Irons Deficient

Max Irons: Don't you mean Iron deficient?

Me: ...no

Too hot to handle, Too hot to ignore its...

MAX IRONS

Condor, Episode 1, Season 1

I know this series came out in 2018 but I love Max Irons so once I saw he was starring in it I couldn't resist giving it a watch!

(Read on IF you can handle Spoliers)

Things really kick off once CIA Analyst, Joe Turner(Max Irons)is on a run and his friend who also works in the CIA, Sam, calls him into his office...Joe is told that the CIA has found a suspicious person using a program he created 2 years ago(and had forgotten about). They tell him they've been monitoring a Saudi muslim immigrant man for 6 weeks(who wasn't even on their radar before using Joe's tech)and find out this man has gotten an unknown package from a secret P.O. box and is on his way to a football stadium(where the suspect works)with 80,000 people inside...but Joe's program wasn't supposed to be used on US citizens...and his uncle Bob, who's in the CIA too, is the one who's been misusing Joe's programming...the CIA is also planning to kill the suspect(despite having NO real evidence he's dangerous)and Joe is NOT on board with their plan at all...

Joe's uncle, Bob: "You wrote the program, Joe."

Joe: "Yeah, I did, so you guys would know who to look at, but not through the scope of a fucking sniper rifle."

(Up above is just a little snippet of Joe arguing with his uncle, Bob, about killing a man who's and I quote Max Irons himself here: "Now forgive me for taking a second to contemplate the 88% likelihood that this man is guilty of nothing more than coming from the wrong country and applying for the wrong fucking job").

Joe leaves after arguing over the life of a possibly innocent man...and to make things even more complicated for poor Joe, he ends up going on a date he forgot about with a woman his friends(Sam and Mae)set him up with on Tinder....and this is just the first 15 minutes of the episode, there's so much more tension and murder and lust(yes Max Irons' character, Joe Turner, has sex with a girl he met at the bar and doesn't even know her name). If you don't like spicy scenes, might want to just skip past this but I feel like it actually contributes to the plot(trust me when I say it's MORE than just a sex scene)so things might get confusing later on if you don't watch it...otherwise I'll leave it to you to watch the 1st episode and see how Joe goes from arguing with his uncle about killing a man to banging a girl he just met to everyone he works with in the office dying...

Sidenote: Without anymore spoilers, I'd like to say Condor(at least from what I've seen so far since I've only watched the 1st episode)is a really good series and Max Irons does an amazing job playing Joe Turner, making him a very believable character, which is good since some characters just seem so unrealistic and not relatable making it hard to believe someone like this could ever really exist but NOT with the way Max Irons plays Joe. This episode also makes people(or at least me anyway)really think about those hard, morally questionable times you get into sometimes where there's not one obvious answer but you're still trying to make the right call(like in Joe's case where he has to decide whether or not a man who hasn't actually done anything wrong and he's 88% sure is innocent should live or die).

The show also seems to play heavily on the government, whether it's corrupt or not, if all the people in it are truly evil, where to draw the line on protecting the public...on the surface it probably just looks like a dramatic, action series but it's honestly so much more than that and I might've went into this just wanting to watch Max Irons in the leading role but I came out hooked on this amazing show! Seriously I really hope you guys will give Condor a watch!