I haven’t been able to hash this out as a fully-formed show pitch, but now that we know who’s still standing and where from the finale, I know the one spin-off I really need to see.
I want a Suicide Squad show by way of The Wire. Perhaps it turns out that Fitz hasn’t been a mere FBI agent all this time, but is working for a secret branch of the government that handles deadly black ops missions. He recruits the most dangerous man in Baltimore, Chris Partlow, to head-up an all-star team of the city’s most dangerous criminals to work as a secret government task force, and they’re rigged with bombs to prevent them from escaping, with the promise of freedom if they complete enough impossible missions.
The rest of the core team would include Wee-Bay as the most trustworthy of the rest of the team, Avon as the charismatic former leader looking to take Partlow’s spot, Sergei (“Boris”) as the necessary evil Russian guy, Shamrock as the office-bound assistant to Fitz, Kenard as the ruthless maniac the rest fear most and White Mike McArdle as the guy who gets blown up trying to escape in the first episode, because somebody has to get blown up trying to escape in the first episode. People like Ziggy, Bird and Monk could be added later as more people are killed in action or blown up trying to escape.
All I know is, I would absolutely watch a show where Chris Partlow, Wee-Bay and Kenard are forced to go on international espionage missions, and I don’t think I’m alone in this, HBO.
