It's right there in the title, so obviously Operation Treadstone is important to the plot of USA's Treadstone. To help you through the first few episodes, we've got a dossier of intel below you can upload into your brain for later activation. Treadstone, which was conceived by producer Ben Smith as being " concurrent" to the films, shares many qualities with a Bourne movie: Memories get erased, individuals discover previously unknown fighting capabilities, and CIA agents bark out lines like, "Clear the room!" At points, it can be a little overwhelming. By 2017, Damon wondered in an interview if "maybe people are done with the character."
2012's The Bourne Legacy tried to swap Jeremy Renner into the lead role, introducing a new super-spy and the experimental pills known as "chems," but the movie got mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office, setting the stage for Damon's return in 2016's underwhelming Jason Bourne. Though Treadstone is the inaugural TV spin-off of the larger Bourne universe, which began with Robert Ludlum's 1980 novel The Bourne Identity and has carried on in book form even after the author's death, it's not the first attempt to build out the series without Damon. As the slightly awkward wording in the opening credits for the series indicates, Treadstone is "based on an organization from the Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum." That means all the confusing narrative scaffolding that supported Matt Damon's Jason Bourne adventures must now stand on its own. Is it possible to do Bourne without Bourne? That's the question hanging over Treadstone, the ambitious action-thriller series that debuts October 15 on USA Network with a premiere episode that pings between far-flung international locations, stretches across multiple conspiracy-filled time periods, and clobbers the viewer with kinetic hand-to-hand combat. This story contains mild spoilers for USA's Treadstone.
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