assim77
This is really good series & nice action from Josh Holloway golden boy. I love you see more, please give it a chance as lot of people expecting next season. People here in united kingdom love to see series like this and Josh Holloway looks great and much more different in this role. This season reminded me Kiefer Sutherland's 24 shows true life of agents and dirty politics. Its great concept and best cast you should give couple of more seasons.Overall one of the things you can't stop watching after you've seen five minutes of it.I would strongly recommend that if you don't already watch this, start now because you're really missing out the great series.
nicola-j-peacock
Before watching I skimmed the reviews as I always do and saw a mixed bag from 10/10 action packed to not being able to get put the leads bad hair cut! (Which admittedly made me chuckle and can now see where they are coming from). So, after watching episode 1 I'm please to report BRILLIANT! It's TV for Christ sake peeps, get over it. It's not real! I found it full of action, high energy, pleasing on the eye (men and women!) and over all an hour of my life well spent! I love it and will be watching every episode on box sets and pleased that I didn't take any notice of all the negative reviews! Give it a go you won't be disappointed :)
feyipuk
One of the things that made Chuck so clever was the way that the main character was still a nerd, just he had special skills to make him more physical. He didn't have years of training or psychological training or regimented life style before he got his edge. Yet it's not the upgrade that made that program, but how it was used to propel the story along.And this is what gets me about Intelligence. The main character is an ex Delta operative, with multiple tours in Iraq; he's been trained to fight, to follow orders, to get the job done. And to make life more interesting, "something" has happened to his wife that became the centre of his life. And they stick a chip in his head that connects him to practically everything electronic, turning him from just another highly trained soldier, into a multi-lingual, crime scene rendering, surveillance analysing genius. As the byline on the poster says "WHAT'S IN HIS HEAD WILL BLOW YOUR MIND": Americas greatest asset! He's brawn with brains (which is more watchable than making a computer genius do Spec Ops training or a commando learn to code). I was looking forward to this being a Strike Back with more technology, but it feels more like the 1996 TV series Sentinel, with heightened senses replaced with a computer senses. Like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish, it's more exciting to have someone who knows how to do the computer stuff and add on the fighting, than trying to teach a soldier how to code, and have tedious coding scenes! The graphics and the sets are pretty great. You get the Eureka crime scene recreation scenes, the ability to view most forms of broadcast information, the ability to decrypt information and have it float around on the screen, look at people and know their names/affiliations/email and all other records.But this is where the premise breaks down for me. He's supposed to be able to access countless government and civilian databases, which in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, contain mountains and mountains of information on every individual in the developed world, and yet he can't track one woman who seems to occupy most of his life. The title of the series is Intelligence; the field of work he's in and the computer chip that gives him human plus abilities, yet even with those available to him, he can't do what many series wrap up in one episode. He's still backed up by a team of people who know how the technology works, but lag behind him when it comes to operations (you'd think there'd be some resentment there), and he still goes on missions and follows the orders given too him, which given how much power he has at his disposal seems at odds with how strong willed he seems towards finding his wife. They needed to have a pilot were the chip was implanted, show him learning how to control his ability. He is the only man with his powers, how he learns to filter out all the other noise to become the super spy. My mind isn't blown by what's in his head; instead, you have the clichéd James Bond scenes, where the vital clue has Bluetooth for him to hack and snipers have cameras (something he can lock on to) on their rifles for him to avoid. If you take this formulaic story from one clue to another, then it's a good evenings drama. Yet, sadly, the characters seem so paper thin given the weight of back story they carry, it just doesn't flow like other attempts at integrating computers into humans. I'd like to see it get better and evolve, but I can't see how it can make that leap without a change of direction.
Joyce Marra (juicemonster691)
Please CBS give this show the chance it and the cast deserves. This is a real good action, scifi show with some good humor thrown in.The Actors are really settling in to their roles can't wait for finale Monday. Would love to see it back on after Unforgettable has finale cause we almost lost that too which woulda sucked. Good time slot and shows would compliment each other in my life for years to come. Love CBS shows don't hurt me by removing good shows. You managed to steal Josh Holloway before any one else did Do not give him up.You got Marge back out there. Just like you kept my man who started as a real awesome vampire and is now Hawaii 50 favorite actor Alex O'Loughlin. I REALLY HOPE THIS GETS TO THOSE WHO MATTER AND THEY DO NOT CANCEL!