‘Countdown’: Taking Down Smugglers

This Amazon Prime series features a team of inter-agency agents who pursue smugglers coming over the southern border.

An inter-agency team pursues smugglers of radioactive material: (front L–R) Amber Oliveras (Jessica Camacho), Nathan Blythe (Eric Dane), and Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles); (back L–R) Lucas Finau (Uli Latukefu), Evan Shepherd (Violett Beane), and Keyonte Bell (Elliot Knight), in “Countdown.” Amazon Prime/MovieStillsDB

TV-MA | 13 episodes | Thriller | 2025

An inter-agency task force ought to be like an all-star team of law enforcement talent. Special Agent Nathan Blythe (Eric Dane) takes a different approach. He requisitions the misfits who are unlikely to be recalled back to their agencies before the case is closed. Yet they all have the determination to get the job done, even if it means dying in the line of duty. That just might happen to some of them in creator-showrunner-writer Derek Haas’s “Countdown.”