Especially when considering the main cast of Makoto, Laurent, Abbie, and Cynthia, the four characters whose backstories' are explored more closely in different cases, they all feel so human. Besides the beautiful artistic choices of this show, the characters are the best point of Great Pretender. While this show is not a mimic robin-hood or sob story for all of the world's oppressed, it does everything a heist show should do and more by having characters as complex as the heists themselves. assembling a crew, planning the gig, recovering from something that went wrong), Great Pretender executes the traditional heist method well, in part to a balance of its genuinely funny comedic moments (a nice mixture of the mild ridiculousness of the heists, the somewhat abusive relationship of the crew, and non-fatal slap stick) and the more serious undertones of the heists (dealing with how the innocent and little people become the victims of the powerful through war, human trafficking, drug smuggling, gambling, etc.) As each of the heists progress, the show becomes less about conning a rich a$%hole of their fraudulently earned fortune and more about building empathy for those whose lives are obviously painful as well as those who have had more complicated paths. While all the classic elements of a typical heist are there (i.e.

I was entirely wrong and so pleasantly surprised. More-so, the opening felt more like a ripoff rather than a reference to Cowboy Bebop and I lowered my expectations of the show having any originality. When I first began watching this show, I feared it would fall into the same formula of any other media with a con/heist premise.

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