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Can You Wear Silly Hats?
“Chaos,” a new series beginning Friday on CBS is at once a deadpan sendup of the spy genre, in the manner of “Get Smart,” and something considerably less ambitious. The opening montage, a series of black-and-white cold war images making reference to intelligence foibles and occasions of malfeasance, offers a wry instant history of misguided American foreign policy.
What follows is even funnier. Arriving for his first day at C.I.A. headquarters hats in suburban Virginia, the eager young spook Rick Martinez immediately encounters failures of security at the entry gate, where the gumbo he has packed for lunch trips alarms as potential weaponry. And to think that the stuff didn’t even look that spicy.
As the catalyst for the action, Martinez is played by Freddy Rodriguez,Google推广, whom you will recall from the embalming room on “Six Feet Under.” People who seem freakishly comfortable around formaldehyde aren’t those we necessarily imagine assuming the mantle of Maxwell Smart. Mr. Rodriguez’s look hats of fixed perplexity doesn’t make him the most obvious choice for comic material, but his anxiety accommodates the proceedings well here. He seems like the right kind of guy to get caught up in the wrong kind of mess.
Martinez has been aspiring to spydom apparently since birth. “I have trained my whole life for a career with the C.I.A.,” he tells his boss, a stone-faced functionary played by Kurtwood Smith. “When my brothers were at soccer camp, I stayed home and studied Arabic. When everyone else was dating, I was working at a firing range, getting paid in bullets, so I could train on semiautomatics.” Martinez has ideas about the direction that his professional life hats will take that are quickly contradicted by reality.For a protracted moment it feels as if “Chaos” is going to turn inventively into a C.I.A. satire completely under the influence of “The Office.” You’re thinking that the real crisis at headquarters will have something do with budget cuts that mean fewer laser printers for expense reports from trips made to the Milwaukee field office. This would be welcome. But it isn’t long before we’ve descended into the territory of rogue agents, Sudanese rebels, near-death hostage situations, Cambodian heroin dealers and bizarre excursions into desert negotiation.
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