When a criminal mastermind is put up against an FBI agent, the sides are supposed to be easy: Black and white, good and bad. But in “The Endgame,” a New York City-set heist drama series that premiered Monday on NBC, everything is a little gray.
The cat-and-mouse thriller opens with the arrest of international arms dealer Elena Federova, played by Morena Baccarin, loyal only to herself. On the other side of the table is FBI Agent Val Turner, brought to life by Ryan Michelle Bathé, so loyal to her own moral code that she turned her husband in for a bribe.
And in an underground holding cell in Queens, the two dance around each other, all while Elena manipulates seven simultaneous bank heists around the city.
