This is a mostly spoiler-free review of Starz’s The Rook Season 1, episode 1, which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. PT/ET.
Starz is no stranger to blending sci-fi and spycraft, as evidenced by the premium cable network’s critically-acclaimed (and cancelled-too-soon) Counterpart, which deftly blended high-concept thrills with a moody mystery. The Rook feels thematically similar, if a little more lively – beginning with the Memento-esque premise of a woman who wakes up at London’s Millennium Bridge with no memory of who she is or how she got there, surrounded by dead bodies wearing latex gloves.
Source: IGN.com The Rook Season 1 Premiere Review