tony-943
I wanted to like this show. I tried to like this show. I would've had to break my brain to like this show.I was looking for some new fluffy actiony TV show to watch, something that had a couple seasons under it's belt already. I'm usually of the mindset that if a show has made it past two seasons, it's probably at least watchable. Every rule has it's exceptions though, and this is one of them.Ever been so bored you get sucked into reading TV tropes? I think maybe the writers mistakenly believed those were plot device recommendations... this show totally checks all the boxes. So, going into it, you'd better be comfortable with guns that make clicky sounds when they move, supposedly high-level special agents who fail at the most basic tasks, people trusting people they shouldn't trust, being betrayed, then trusting them again, computer things that don't really make sense, and ... I kinda lost count, to be honest, of the number of times this show made me say "seriously?!"So I can look past all those "TV sins" if I'm just looking for something to throw on and half pay attention to, but there's one thing I just can't get past. It kinda hit me, while watching the second or third episode: in this world, the FBI has about 20 employees, and doesn't really do much work. (After all, Jane is their most important case!) Once I framed the storyline in those terms, it started to make more sense, and then I couldn't help but notice all the other absurdities that really start compounding before the first season is even halfway through. At some point, you realize you have to turn off your critical thinking skills, and I mean, *completely* shut them off. I kept trying to figure out what was going to happen next, thinking "nah that's way too obvious," then seeing that very thing happen on the screen.It's like this show is written by teenagers, or at a minimum, 20-somethings without a solid grasp on reality. There's almost nothing about the show that's believable, except I mean maybe the basics: people can be tattooed, UV light is a thing, perl and python are in fact scripting languages. Jaimie Alexander is nice to look at. But beyond that, it all falls apart. Maybe this is one of those new shows that's written using machine learning algorithms.I really wonder if the production team is just so lousy that it stomps all over the actors' performances. Kinda hard to do a good job with some of the plot lines this show has. Then again... I don't know... maybe it's just not worth trying to figure out what caused this show to be such a hot mess. It's just so... very... weak.
nickelalloy
Read any of the last half dozen 3/10 reviews for why this is bad, they mirror my thoughts.If I had to pick one culprit (there are many) I'd pick the writing it's lazy, lacklustre and in more and more places nonsensical. It was always a bit of a stretch but now...This went downhill far and fast.
anagent
Apart from the relentless over the top music that often drowns out the dialogue, the awful camera work carried out by the old guy with Parkinson's disease. Oh, and every episode has a fight sequence where Jane kicks someone a$$ into the next town.
Lastly, how does Patterson design and install all those superb graphics on her computer system so quickly?