Sure, FBI agents are humans, too, with emotions and faults. But averting your eyes when someone gets shot on film? Showing emotions whenever you can? Not being able to hold responsibility for actions that you have to as an agent and generally being rather dumb in observing obvious things I'd expect agents to learn in training? All those things don't make Bell a good agent. Quite the opposite. She must be the worst agent after Carry from Homeland I've ever seen.
That character makes this whole show really silly and the writing - especially on dialogues - isn't particulary noteworthy anyway. All while Zidan is kinda this stereotypical stonehearted, emotional pillar story book FBI agent. That makes Bell even worse in direct comparison, she's the Anti-Zidan, or Zidan is the Anti-Bell if you wish. Yet those two are the main duo of this procedural and they do not go well together.
So far the stories have been mediocre, nothing that wasn't done many times already in one way or another. They weren't entirely horrendous but shallow and most of all very forgettable. The budget is way too low and you can see it everywhere: the terribly stuffed FBI "office". The repeated scenery, the close ups of scenes that could be done all in one street. Missing CGI like in this episode when the sniper got killed and you had no indication of what exactly happened, in context yes, but don't just tell it, show it (in a matter of speaking, of course). This show has nothing setting it apart from similar series and does nothing that you will remember for long.
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2018-10-19T18:45:10Z
Sure, FBI agents are humans, too, with emotions and faults.
But averting your eyes when someone gets shot on film? Showing emotions whenever you can? Not being able to hold responsibility for actions that you have to as an agent and generally being rather dumb in observing obvious things I'd expect agents to learn in training? All those things don't make Bell a good agent. Quite the opposite. She must be the worst agent after Carry from Homeland I've ever seen.
That character makes this whole show really silly and the writing - especially on dialogues - isn't particulary noteworthy anyway. All while Zidan is kinda this stereotypical stonehearted, emotional pillar story book FBI agent. That makes Bell even worse in direct comparison, she's the Anti-Zidan, or Zidan is the Anti-Bell if you wish. Yet those two are the main duo of this procedural and they do not go well together.
So far the stories have been mediocre, nothing that wasn't done many times already in one way or another. They weren't entirely horrendous but shallow and most of all very forgettable. The budget is way too low and you can see it everywhere: the terribly stuffed FBI "office". The repeated scenery, the close ups of scenes that could be done all in one street. Missing CGI like in this episode when the sniper got killed and you had no indication of what exactly happened, in context yes, but don't just tell it, show it (in a matter of speaking, of course).
This show has nothing setting it apart from similar series and does nothing that you will remember for long.
Dropped.