(The 2009 scenes are reminiscent of the early sequences in “The Silence of the Lambs,” maybe more so because Brooke Smith, who was the kidnapped Catherine Martin in “Lambs,” plays a tough-but-fair FBI instructor.) Smith’s Lennix, a cocky hotshot from a politically connected family, and Sepideh Moafi’s Hour, a brilliant mathematics and cyber-tech mind whose persecuted Iranian immigrant parents are shocked by her decision to pursue a career with the feds. The class includes Kate Mara’s Poet, a former psychiatric nurse with something of a savior complex Brian J. “Class of ’09” begins in the year 2034, with the powerful, longtime FBI director Tayo Michaels (Brian Tyree Henry, great as always) presiding over a “Minority Report” type landscape in which 24/7 surveillance appears to have reached new levels, leading Michaels to proclaim, “Not only are we one of the greatest countries on this Earth, we are now also one of the safest.”įlashback to 2009 and the FBI Academy near Quantico, Virginia, where Tayo is a former insurance executive who is struggling to meet the physical requirements to graduate. I found myself wishing everyone would just settle down and remain in place for a while longer, just to let the story breathe. It’s a terrific, tightly spun, consistently engrossing series-but I have to admit that despite the title cards reminding us of what year it is in the timeline, there were a couple of times when even with the subtle changes in costume, the adjustments in makeup and what appears to be some digital sculpting of certain actors, I wasn’t sure if we were in the year 2009 or 2023 or 2034. Such is the case with the FX on Hulu suspense thriller “Class of ’09,” which nearly trips over its own timeline even as it delivers expertly rendered action sequences, timely commentary about the expanding role of A.I. A series premiering with two episodes Wednesday on Hulu, with a new episode premiering each Wednesday through June 21.
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