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The Consultant
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Consultant actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Consultant reads strongest on Tension, Cliffhanger Intensity and Serialized.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
A budding novelist realizes his crime fiction is being used as a blueprint for real-life assassinations by a mysterious organization.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Takahiro KasagiProducer
Direction
- Hideo NakataDirector
- Yoshinori KobayashiDirector
Music
- Hidehiro KawaiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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