The Listener (TV Series) Reckoning (2011) User Reviews

I Can Believe The Unbelievable, not The Impossible.

[jamericanbeauty · 1/10 · 12 March 2024]

Even in a fantasy crime-drama, you must have rules, and the writers must write within those rules. You can't just throw nonsense the viewer's way because Toby needs a pretty redhead to get busy in bed with who has powers like him and even stronger (we'll get to that in a minute) and those said powers led to her sacrificing herself thereby predictably making Toby realize he must continue to use his abilities to help others, despite harming his own health. In Season One, this show used to have an advisor, confidant and psychiatrist (played by always great Colm Feore) for Toby, who guided him. Did the the wise doctor retire? His wisdom would have guided an uncertain Toby to the path of sacrifice for others, instead of some random girl with telepathic abilities who can also transfer or plant ideas in others human beings heads who have a guilty conscience. She does this without speaking to you by the way! Her family was murdered when she was eight. She was in a coma for a year after being shot. She's in her 20s now. Why revenge now? Toby inherited his abilities from his Mom, as Season One alludes. Toby assumes His Girl Friday got her mental powers while in a coma. Ok? But how is she transferring or planting ideas in others' heads. One minute, IIB supercop Michelle is interrogating the girl with the super mental powers, the next she's releasing her with no memory of why and how! The episode never explains how this is happening! It's one thing for someone to have special powers. But how are they just randomly transferring ideas into someone else's head to off themselves, essentially mind control. It's not hypnosis and she doesn't even speak to them! This episode was the worst episode of the series. Things were just happening without any rhyme or reason. Maybe instead of focusing on Michelle's boring divorce dilemma, the episode should have focused on what could have been a great episode if the writers just took the time to explain the new fascinating special powers of a newcomer, who's now a goner. Please don't do this in Season 3!