All the attention paid to the season finale of “Mad Men,” last Sunday night more or less eclipsed the finale of AMC’s other Sunday-night drama, “Rubicon.” It’s not clear yet whether Rubicon will be back for another season—it hasn’t exactly gotten rave reviews (New York Magazine’s verdict: “A promising show that started with a train crash ends up kind of a train wreck.” But complaints about the series’ slow narrative pace and uneven performances shouldn’t be allowed to obscure what made “Rubicon” so fascinating: its subversion, even deconstruction, of the very spy-thriller clichés it was built on.

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