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Tom Hopper as Raife Hastings in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf on Amazon Prime Video Credit: Prime Video One of the dark horses of 2025’s television slate has been the surprisingly excellent first season of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. I liked it so much that included it in my Best TV Shows Of 2025 Part 1 list. The series is a prequel spinoff of 2022’s Prime Video hit show, The Terminal List starring Chris Pratt. The show was based on the novel of the same name by ex-Navy SEAL and author, Jack Carr. Dark Wolf shifts the focus from Pratt’s character, James Reece, onto another character from that series: Ben Edwards, played by Taylor Kitsch. We learned some surprising truths about Edwards in the original series, and Dark Wolf gives us a window into how Edwards went from Navy SEAL to CIA operative, leading him down a very dark path. In the end, regardless of how much I enjoyed the show, I don’t think it took us far enough down that path. Perhaps they’re hoping to tell the rest of that story in Season 2. One of the best and most surprising additions to Dark Wolf, however, was a character who didn’t appear at all in The Terminal List: Raife Hastings, a Rhodesian expat and Navy SEAL lieutenant played by Tom Hopper. Hastings is a major character in the books, but this is his first appearance in the TV adaptation. In many ways, Hastings is yin to Ben’s yang. Where Edwards is driven by pathos and guilt, acting impulsively, Hastings is cautious and calm, urging restraint and questioning the actions of CIA operative, Jed Haverford (Robert Wisdom). When I spoke with Hopper, he talked about channeling Mtulivu, the character’s nickname in Swahili, which means “calm one.” Where Edwards is…

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