Before Hulu’s Reprisal, it seemed as though the world of pulp-inspired crime dramas had been relegated primarily to Cinemax. The HBO sister network offered up two of TV’s best examples of the genre with the Bruce Lee-inspired Warrior and the Carla Gugino-led Jett. The two followed in the footsteps of the pulpy noir series Banshee, which ran for four seasons and essentially turned Cinemax into an unlikely destination for quality crime shows with a premium cable edge.
Reprisal, by comparison...