HerbertFish
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What happened with the husband I missed it
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RustyNails
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It's probably what sold the pitch.
I will still watch it because Spader <3. Hope he knows what he's doing.
Oh god, the G. Gordon Liddy pencil kill? Amazing.
She found a box under the floorboards with fake passports with his picture, money and a gun.
I'm not entirely sure they were really his, could've been planted.
aparisi2274
Member
I'm pretty sure they were his... I mean you'd have to plant those super early on in a relationship for them to have dust build up under floorboards.
That's how Reddington knew so much about Lizzy. Her husband is his mole.
Choppasmith
Member
I thought it was okay. A little overdone and corny, butI'm looking forward to seeing the mystery around the husband unraveled and more James Spader who's fantastic.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Edit: I have to go into more detail, because it was just that bad.
I was watching this tonight, but I couldn't continue when the clusterfuck kidnapping scene happened.
Utterly shameful.
I was watching this tonight, but I couldn't continue when the clusterfuck kidnapping scene happened.
0) They are dealing with terrorists who worked with their most wanted dude to slip under their radar, and yet...
1) They are told ahead of time that there will be a diversion or disruption. They come to a road block and DON'T QUESTION IT AT ALL.
2) When you are T-boned at good speed by A FUCKING DUMP TRUCK you aren't just a little shaken up.
3) This is an FBI caravan to bring the general's daughter to safety and the windows aren't bulletproof and apparently all the agents are unarmed and dimwitted.
4) The bad guys don't have body armor, either, despite being extremely prepared.
5) They escape on boats in broad daylight in WASHINGTON MOTHERFUCKING D.C. and there is not one helicopter scrambling LIKE THEY DID WHEN THEY GOT LIZ even though they were warned ahead of time?
1) They are told ahead of time that there will be a diversion or disruption. They come to a road block and DON'T QUESTION IT AT ALL.
2) When you are T-boned at good speed by A FUCKING DUMP TRUCK you aren't just a little shaken up.
3) This is an FBI caravan to bring the general's daughter to safety and the windows aren't bulletproof and apparently all the agents are unarmed and dimwitted.
4) The bad guys don't have body armor, either, despite being extremely prepared.
5) They escape on boats in broad daylight in WASHINGTON MOTHERFUCKING D.C. and there is not one helicopter scrambling LIKE THEY DID WHEN THEY GOT LIZ even though they were warned ahead of time?
Utterly shameful.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Could this show that I'm going to watch have a more obvious title?
Choppasmith
Member
Yeah, that whole thing bothered me, namely
how the terrorists were able to come up with an completely new, elaborate kidnapping plan on the fly. If there's more stupidity like this I'm not watching any more.
Not to mention that
road block is just some guy with a stop sign
I'll give it a couple more episodes, but the pilot smells a lot like The Following.
Tim the Wiz
Banned
Ugh. Decent concept ruined by a dull every-person frame character (and awful, broad, disjointed direction and an unrealistic FBI and let's not even get into the music choices). The AVClub review nails it:
Compared to Hannibal, just abysmal. Even Alias was streets ahead with Sydney Bristo. I don't even remember the name of the female lead and I just watched the pilot.
So I thought I could watch Spader being Spader all day but when everything else is this bad, I'll have to pass.
She has scenes, explaining herself to Spader and Lennix, in which she basically rattles off explicit descriptions of what the producers want us to believe she’s playing: A smart, driven woman with a hellish past who’s not afraid to seem abrasive. But she’s introduced to the audience in an elaborate meet-cute of a sequence in which she and her husband (Ryan Eggold) rush around trying to get ready to leave the house for their jobs, trading fun repartee about the dog peeing on the floor and their plans to adopt a baby. Some of this is undercut by the final plot twist of the pilot, but Boone still comes across as a romantic comedy heroine in the wrong show, Rachel McAdams with less grit.
Compared to Hannibal, just abysmal. Even Alias was streets ahead with Sydney Bristo. I don't even remember the name of the female lead and I just watched the pilot.
So I thought I could watch Spader being Spader all day but when everything else is this bad, I'll have to pass.
Thanks!
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I enjoyed it, definitely worth a watch IMO.
King Allant
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was cheesy but interesting. Didn't like how incompetent the FBI was though. Will give it a few more episode
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Yeah I agree definitely interested in seeing where this goes.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Not so good. The initial 'hello clarice' moments felt overproduced between the wub wub music and the gigantic glass cage, and buying Reddington's masterstroke relies on an incredible abundance of coincidence and incompetence by the FBI.
, for example. Only the husband subplot was really engaging and that's because it's something of a cliffhanger. They'll have to deliver on that next episode and not drag it out over the rest of the season to maintain my interest. I worry the recurring formula will be a procedural revolving around 'Only Reddington is really smart and everyone else makes stupid irrational decisions that frustrate the viewers for the first 20 minutes of the show' if this premiere is a sign of things to come.
You don't need to be a hyper intelligent world-class superterrorist to escape from an unlocked, unguarded hospital window
a secret-boss
Banned
eh kinda average. procedural drama with ur anti-hero partner
main character look like Olivia Wilde at the end scene.
main character look like Olivia Wilde at the end scene.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Great show. Spader chews every scene. Definitely has a Hannibal mixed with Alias vibe to me. Like someone asked "what would Sydney have done if Arvind Sloan had been working with her?"
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Halfway through the pilot. Kinda... Not great.
Edit: didn't see their husband getting shanked.
Edit: didn't see their husband getting shanked.
All the reason I need.
zeroeffect
Member
Yea, I'd like some more brief impressions if some are so kind to do so.
Impressions, hmm.. The first conversation scene between Spader, who I think the FBI mistaken for a super power villain they need to lock in a glass cage, and that FBI girl, who can't act, was so similar to Silence of the Lambs.
Inept FBI they borrowed from The Following failed to do anything, and need the oh so smart "concierge of crime" Spader to be in charge to teach them how to do their job. Meh.
For now, my impression is it's really generic and shallow. Will give it a couple more episodes before deciding.
Oh, and dump truck is cool! It's better than a supposedly bullet proof FBI vehicles!
AngmarsKing701
Member
Spader rocks.
Rockandrollclown
lookwhatyou'vedone
I thought, when he was wearing the glasses at least, he looked more like Hunter S Thompson.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Caught this last night on Hulu to give it a chance. Wasn't very impressed. Not the kind of show I tend to go for but with Spader on board and a somewhat unique premise, I thought I'd see where it went. Outside of Spader, it was rather uninteresting to me.
Hari Seldon
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Just watched this last night. Who the fuck approves this shit? I mean do they have like Timmy the Greenlighter working at NBC? How are people who write these shows given any money at all to write this crap? Do they even use human writers, or an automated script generator? The only good thing about this show is the cast and the action scenes, everything else is formulaic garbage.
A corollary to this rant: We should probably consider a national ban against shows involving FBI psychological profilers. It would improve the economy if we didn't have so many people inspired to major in psychology off of these stupid ass shows. Also, the FBI doesn't even use profilers anymore when they can just NSA your ass.
A corollary to this rant: We should probably consider a national ban against shows involving FBI psychological profilers. It would improve the economy if we didn't have so many people inspired to major in psychology off of these stupid ass shows. Also, the FBI doesn't even use profilers anymore when they can just NSA your ass.
BronsonLee
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Rodney McKay
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The prison cell they have Spader in is so goddamn stupid. How is it more secure than a normal cell? Why do you waste a gigantic space on a one person cell? They could fit dozens of super criminals in there if they put normal ass jail cells in there.
Probably won't come back to this show, just feels super dumb and I don't care about any of the characters they introduced.
Probably won't come back to this show, just feels super dumb and I don't care about any of the characters they introduced.
BronsonLee
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Yo I love Spader in this
And like I said on Twitter before he mentioned it, what is with her and stabbing people in the necks with pens
And like I said on Twitter before he mentioned it, what is with her and stabbing people in the necks with pens
So her choice is to...put the box away and pretend like she has no idea about it?
That decision may have just lost me on the show entirely. Elizabeth as a character has to be a pretty special kind of idiot to just try and ignore an elephant that huge in the hopes that it'll go away, for any length of time. Spader's amusing and all but the way in which he orchestrates every single damn thing is already tiresome and he's going to really needless lengths to try and prove his point.
That decision may have just lost me on the show entirely. Elizabeth as a character has to be a pretty special kind of idiot to just try and ignore an elephant that huge in the hopes that it'll go away, for any length of time. Spader's amusing and all but the way in which he orchestrates every single damn thing is already tiresome and he's going to really needless lengths to try and prove his point.
aparisi2274
Member
I preferred tonights episode over the pilot.
Really love Spader in this...
Really love Spader in this...
FlipWilson
Neo Member
it was this or Hostages....chose Hostages
it sucks both these shows come on at the same time....
it sucks both these shows come on at the same time....
Wiktor
Member
I'm enjoying this. I realize it's only because of Spader, but I don't care.
Also kudos to people who built sets. It's such a rarity to see a prison box with actual toilet in it. Most movies and tv shows just assume characters never have to take a piss. Most recent examples; Avengers and Skyfall.
Also kudos to people who built sets. It's such a rarity to see a prison box with actual toilet in it. Most movies and tv shows just assume characters never have to take a piss. Most recent examples; Avengers and Skyfall.