RunQuantico : Season 1 Episode 1

The first season of the American drama thriller series Quantico premiered in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 27, 2015, and concluded on May 15, 2016. ABC Studios produced the season, with creator Joshua Safran, Mark Gordon, Robert Sertner, Nicholas Pepper and Jake Coburn serving as executive producers.

Consisting of twenty-two episodes, season one follows Alex Parrish, the brightest FBI recruit in her class, who becomes an FBI field agent after graduating from the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, and later becomes a prime suspect after a terrorist attack on Grand Central Terminal. Told using dual timelines, the narrative switches between the present, where Parrish runs from captivity to prove her innocence, and the past, which shows her training at the academy with her fellow recruits as details about their lives and relationships with one another are revealed.

Season one aired on Sundays in the United States at 10:00 p.m. It debuted with strong numbers, averaging 8.05 million viewers and received positive reviews from critics. Priyanka Chopra won the 2016's People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series for her portrayal of Alex Parrish, making her the first South Asian to win a People's Choice Award. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released season one on DVD on September 13, 2016.

As the season progresses, Alex is able to prove her innocence with the help of her friends. She discovers that the suspected bomber is former FBI analyst-trainee Elias Harper, who planted the bomb on the instructions of a terrorist mastermind. Having cleared her name at a congressional hearing, Parrish is reinstated as an FBI agent and assigned to the field office in New York. In the operations section, she works to uncover the mastermind behind the bombings, as the 2016 presidential election nears. The supervising training agent Liam O'Connor is eventually revealed to be the responsible individual and is shot and killed by Parrish and Booth. Parrish is fired from the FBI because of the subsequent publicity of the bombings and Liam's treachery. Two months later, she is approached by Matthew Keyes, who offers her a position at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The first season was produced by the ABC Studios in association with The Mark Gordon Company and Random Acts Productions.[39] Safran, Gordon, Robert Sertner, Nicholas Pepper and Jake Coburn served as the executive producers.[31][40] The show was designed to have a flashback narrative, shifting between two timelines. Safran incorporated the flashforward storytelling technique as he thought it allowed them to spread out the plot points.[41]

The first season of Quantico received positive reviews, with most praising Priyanka Chopra's performance. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% approval rating with an average rating of 6.9/10 based on 56 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, \"Obvious copycatting aside, Quantico provides ludicrously entertaining thrills from a well-balanced cast.\"[54] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 70 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\".[55]

Newark Star-Ledger's Vicki Hyman declared it to be the best new show of the season, giving it an \"A\". She felt the show was \"taut and terrifically calibrated\" noting it has \"at least one deadly effective twist you won't see coming\".[56] The San Francisco Chronicle praised the series, calling it a winner and wrote: \"The plot is intricate and compelling, the characters magnetic and mysterious at the same time.\"[57] James Poniewozik of The New York Times wrote about Chopra's performance, describing her as the \"strongest human asset\" of the show, and added that \"she is immediately charismatic and commanding\".[58] He added that \"the narrative gymnastics make the first half-hour of Quantico pass quickly and entertainingly. Too much of this, though, keeps you from investing much in the characters.\"[58] Robert Bianco from USA Today gave it a three out of four, praising the diversity of the cast and Chopra's and Ellis' performances, writing \"There are times when Quantico feels a shade mechanical, in moments when you can practically hear the plot gears moving. But it accomplishes what the opener of a whodunit needs to do: establish a wide range of plausible suspects and spark our interest in the mystery and the hero.\"[59] In contrast, TheWrap's Tim Grierson, who although felt that the show \"provides sexy fun\", was less impressed, writing that the show often succumbed to \"lame-brained plotting\" and an unconvincing portrayal of the setting. He concluded saying that the fluffy material did not fit well with the darker tones \"meant to be struck by the introduction of a cataclysmic terrorist attack.\"[60]

Season one was nominated for two People's Choice Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Favorite New TV Drama and Favorite Actress in a New TV Series which Chopra won making her the first South Asian to win a People's Choice Award.[61] The first season was also nominated for two Teen Choice Awards: Choice Breakout Series and Choice TV: Breakout Star for Chopra.[62] People and Vanity Fair listed the first season among the Best Television Shows of 2015.[63]

The Clarice of Hannibal is a seasoned FBI agent who has become disenfranchised with her work thanks to her wildly misogynistic bosses and a culture of corruption. The only man who seems supportive of her plight is, shock horror, Hannibal Lecter, and she feels the need to save him from the clutches of Verger, although she still wishes to see him behind bars. A lot of Hannibal is actually pretty fascinating, if utterly bonkers. Clarice's turmoil over her work and her strange companionship to a literal cannibal proves intriguing, and all of the scenes in Florence are beautifully written, evoking a city of wonder and darkness. It's when Hannibal saves Clarice from the killer pigs that things fall off the rails.

With Miranda in charge of the FBI and Claire Haas in charge of the country, the beginning of Quantico season 2 actually looked pretty great for women in power. Then, because the glass ceiling still exists in real life, and on TV, it was all turned upside down. Since women will still be at the forefront of Quantico, we hope to see them keep fighting to get what they deserve. 781b155fdc