I really love shows like this, until the American bleeds out.... Having a high IQ, I was excited when it began but shortly into episode 1 I realised it wasn't actually an intelligent show. And then she holds the laptop out of the roof of a Ferrari going at 320km/h...wow... Ever sat in the passenger seat of a rotor going from 0 to 100km/h in 6 seconds? I could NOT move my arms! Anyway, I don't want to get into flaws... Flaws are fine. My issue here is that a potentially intelligent show about a man who was the top 4 most intelligent people in recorded history turned into what I like to call, HomelandWood... Hollywood post 9/11... Over the top, highly American "security" style show. The kind of show that the movie Team America was taking the Mickie out of... With good reason. You will NEED to turn off your brain during scenes of this show! In fact, skipping some of the scenes is probably safer...
Anyway... I kept watching. I am now 13 episodes in (in 1 day... Uugh), and to be honest, I am enjoying it. It still feeds my enjoyment of intelligent and thought provoking topics. But unfortunately the whole HomelandWood, over the top "America saves the world" type of acting and script makes this show very, VERY bad! Almost funny! It would be hilarious to get together and laugh as group about how unintelligent these overly American HomelandWood episodes are.
This show would be great if they killed off homeland "security", and let the geeks be geeks... Sadly, you failed as soon as you made it homeland security based... Bad, poorly written, horrible script... But good for a laugh! Also fun to point out the 100s of flaws! But that's a different game...
Good luck!
Edit: I've just finished the end of season 1...wow... I am amazed I sat through all of this. The show gets exponentially worse! Scene after scene you see some scenario where it can be solved VERY easily and with minimal logic, we sit for 30 minutes watching them all make mathematical equations, scientific observations, and psychological observations, all just to have the solution sorted out with something either super basic, or overly "American"... It's really bad...
Let's look at the last 2 episodes... Firstly, episode 21 should have been the end of season 1,and 22 the first of season 2 (I'm starting to sound like the writers...).
So many flaws, and as I mentioned earlier I don't like pointing out flaws, but after watching the rest I feel that this show should be completely deconstructed because it claims to be an ultra intelligent show... Which it isn't.
I can't even be bothered to bring up all the flaws I wanted to, it's just not that good of a show to put the energy into. So I'll leave you with this last, arrogant message haha...
If you don't get why this show is super unintelligent, then it's the perfect show for you :) If you value your mind, and are hoping for something to stimulate it, then this show isn't it! It COULD have been!! But the writers are about as intelligent as the juice of the collective balls from 3 mountain goats in Calabria.
I'll give season 2, episodes 3 to 5 a go. But it's not looking good... So disappointed :(
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