When John finds himself publicly accused of murdering Edward Homm (Rob Yang), a Treasury Department investigator, he suspects he’s being set up.

After meeting at a hotel bar, they have a one-night stand. What he does isn’t exactly legal, presumably, but for whatever reason his relationship with Agent Jo Madi (Enid Graham) of the FBI Financial Crimes Unit is one of tense shadowboxing, rather than outright antagonism.īecause of various childhood traumas, featured in a variety of flashbacks, John doesn’t trust anybody - and he especially doesn’t trust Hailey (Meta Golding), an attorney for a homelessness nonprofit. John, a socially awkward bundle of affectations and nervous tics, has a small team of muckrakers who execute variably dirty tricks in order to help wealthy clients make even more money, ideally by sabotaging less likable moguls. Sutherland plays John Weir - no, not the figure skater - a data analyst and corporate spy with a history of paranoia and unspecified mental illness. In an odd way, I guess that’s fitting for Rabbit Hole, which isn’t an especially coherent show, though the third and fourth episodes sent to critics (out of four) are a vast improvement over the first two - in no small part due to co-star Charles Dance, voraciously devouring scenery. There’s a little Movie Star Kiefer, a little Weird Kiefer and a lot of TV Star Kiefer, proving along the way that while these elements emerge from the same thespian, they were never designed to come together as an especially coherent whole.

If there’s anything I admire about Paramount+’s new financial espionage thriller Rabbit Hole - and I wish I admired more about it - it’s the attempt to build the show as a Grand Unified Theory of Kiefer Sutherland Performances. Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Meta Golding, Rob Yang, Charles Dance, Enid Graham, Jason Butler Harner, Walter Klink

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