CITADEL COMES OUT GUNS BLAZING

Here’s what you should know about this spy series that Amazon’s Prime Video has been touting all over the place in recent weeks. During an extensive action sequence in the first episode, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden’s characters engage in some vicious fighting with a train car full of thugs but emerge with hair, makeup and impeccably tailored clothing intact. Well, until the train blows up anyway.

So verisimilitude is not what “Citadel” is all about, but if you’re looking for stylishly filmed action in global settings with ridiculously goodlooking leads, this could be the show for you. The series is from the Russo Brothers, known for directing several Marvel movies, including the megahit “Avengers: Endgame,” and it’s reportedly the second most expensive TV show that Amazon Studios has made after “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”

It’s a good versus evil tale of competing spy groups. The good guys are Citadel, represented by Nadia Sinh (Indian A-lister Chopra Jonas) and Mason Kane (Madden, the Scot known for “Game of Thrones” and “Bodyguard”), versus Manticore, a bunch of nasties run by the world’s eight richest families, who all but wiped out Citadel eight years previously. Manticore is out to finish the job, which is why Nadia and Mason, who had their memories wiped after the train disaster, have been reactivated to basically save the world.

So, yes, some suspension of disbelief is required, but if you’re an action fan that shouldn’t be a stretch. Also on the plus side, the series boasts veteran scene stealers Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville in supporting roles.