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Butterfly (season 1)

Wasting Daniel Dae Kim, Butterfly never manages to escape its cocoon of unoriginality and tedium.
70/1002290
Starring
Daniel Dae Kim, Reina Hardesty, Louis Landau
Creators
Steph Cha, Ken Woodruff
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Action, Spy, Thriller
Release date
Aug 13, 2025
Where to watch
Prime Video
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Rating Summary
Butterfly suffers from a flat script full of repetitive relationship sinkholes that kill any momentum the otherwise by-the-numbers and poorly paced story manages to gain. Daniel Dae Kim, who's never really found a solid footing in Hollywood, is once again wasted in this miniseries' tepid action and laborious emotionalism.

Butterfly on Prime Video follows David Jung, a former U.S. intelligence operative living in hiding in South Korea, whose past catches up when a deadly assassin, tied to the sinister spy organization Caddis, is sent to hunt him. The series weaves high-stakes espionage with complex family dynamics, as David navigates betrayal and danger to protect those he loves

Butterfly (season 1) REVIEW

After a strong opening sequence, Butterfly floats on a formulaic two-step that's continually interrupted by cloned relationship drama, which is flattened by Kim's less capable costar.

 

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James Carrick

James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.

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