Although the wife and I have been watching most of the episodes and will watch the new ones, I've never been a huge fan of the series.
I got a little turned off early on when they decided to have the female Russky spy be a super martial arts fighter capable of throwing around and beating the hell out of 200 lb male spy opponents who outweighed her by one hundred pounds.
I remember one fight where her male opponent threw her against a wall several times and landed a bunch of blows on her. She promptly got up each time and thrashed him. Now I can do a lot of suspending disbelief in watching action flicks, but that was too much.
Having her simply shoot her opponent I suppose would not have been enough for the show's writers. No, they had to show a slight women beating the snot out of much larger males who were supposedly trained in fighting like her. Simply couldn't get my mind around it.
And they didn't just have her do it once, they had her beating up much bigger males numerous times.
In real life, one strong punch to her face by a male twice her size would probably have knocked her out and possibly killed her and at least broken every facial bone.
That trope of small women beating up much larger males, common in so many modern films and tv shows, had a noticeable effect in my casting a cold eye on the whole series.
