This season represents a reboot for this series. The series seems to have gone from bland and boring to crazy and off its rocker. A good thing? Maybe, we'll have to see. This season premiere episode had some decent stuff, but it also had some stuff that was just silly beyond belief.
First, the good stuff, the bland team from last season is gone. I was tired of seeing Mills as the lackey in the team, I wanted to see some semblance of Mills from the movies. Second, they kept Clive Standen and Jennifer Beals, both the best things about the show. The show seems to have upped its action game also and that is a welcomed addition.
Now, the bad stuff. It looks likes the new show runner is going from grounded-in-reality to lets-just-do-it-for-excitement. Because there's no reality in this show. Christina Hart was able to see all the source code for a program that can find anyone anywhere on Earth... with a single Polaroid? Uh huh. A quarter master not only shows up at the right time and the right place, but with a Javelin anti-tank missile? Uh huh. A prison full of prisoners with enough gold teeth to melt for a half-foot long gold pick? Uh huh. Tracking a kidnapped girl by tiny little beads dropped every ten minutes? Uh huh. Like I said, this show is not grounded in reality anymore.
Other things, the green screening at the end of the episode? Wow, that was some terrible Hunt for Red October type green screening. I guess they've had some serious budget cuts for this show's production.
I will give this show a few more episodes, but I am not sure I will stick with it. And since it's stuck in a dead-end Friday night slot, I am not sure that it will last much longer anyways. That's too bad, since Standen and Beals are doing their best here. I still would love NBC to transfer Standen over to The Brave so that he can join that team. Then replace Anne Henche at The Brave with Jennifer Beals.
Review by mookieBlockedParent2018-01-13T23:05:31Z
This season represents a reboot for this series. The series seems to have gone from bland and boring to crazy and off its rocker. A good thing? Maybe, we'll have to see. This season premiere episode had some decent stuff, but it also had some stuff that was just silly beyond belief.
First, the good stuff, the bland team from last season is gone. I was tired of seeing Mills as the lackey in the team, I wanted to see some semblance of Mills from the movies. Second, they kept Clive Standen and Jennifer Beals, both the best things about the show. The show seems to have upped its action game also and that is a welcomed addition.
Now, the bad stuff. It looks likes the new show runner is going from grounded-in-reality to lets-just-do-it-for-excitement. Because there's no reality in this show. Christina Hart was able to see all the source code for a program that can find anyone anywhere on Earth... with a single Polaroid? Uh huh. A quarter master not only shows up at the right time and the right place, but with a Javelin anti-tank missile? Uh huh. A prison full of prisoners with enough gold teeth to melt for a half-foot long gold pick? Uh huh. Tracking a kidnapped girl by tiny little beads dropped every ten minutes? Uh huh. Like I said, this show is not grounded in reality anymore.
Other things, the green screening at the end of the episode? Wow, that was some terrible Hunt for Red October type green screening. I guess they've had some serious budget cuts for this show's production.
I will give this show a few more episodes, but I am not sure I will stick with it. And since it's stuck in a dead-end Friday night slot, I am not sure that it will last much longer anyways. That's too bad, since Standen and Beals are doing their best here. I still would love NBC to transfer Standen over to The Brave so that he can join that team. Then replace Anne Henche at The Brave with Jennifer Beals.