In 'Butterfly,' Daniel Dae Kim Plays a Ruthless Spy and Girl-Dad

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Prime Video has carved out a niche in the crime-spy-espionage “Dad TV” lane with shows like Jack Ryan , Reacher , The Terminal List , and — less successfully — Citadel . Butterfly is its newest entry, and I’d rank it well ahead of Jack Ryan but still a step behind Reacher .

Based on the graphic novel series by Arash Amel, Butterfly follows David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim), a former U.S. intelligence operative now living in South Korea. A decade earlier, he and fellow spy Juno (Piper Perabo) ran a private intel outfit until a mission went sideways, forcing Dave to fake his death so his family wouldn’t be targeted.

Fast-forward to the present: Dave’s been off the grid, but

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