The Call

I will do what I always do. If I'm not terribly enamored with the initial episode of one of these series, I will give it one more go. The scatter-gun approach is hard to hone in on. A young woman goes to see her uncle and aunt. While there some killers show up and she is forced to take off, having been given a phone number and a message. Her uncle and aunt are dead within minutes. She barely survives and a young agent manages to keep her alive. He is a Night Agent. He is to answer a phone in a little room and engage people to help. During the short time, she is in danger from three entities and barely makes it. I have no idea what is going on, only that she is in grave danger.

I like the premise a lot, the story catches your attention But the chick is a horrible actress When she heard her aunt died she goes - everyone loved them What the?

Hahaha That is such a dumb response No emotion at all

And the scene where the cop opens the closet door and it's not the bad guy is such a 90's rip off The timing didn't make sense at all How do you switch from bad guy to cop in 1 second and the cop doesn't see the bad guy? Come on, the scene was tense and could of been really good But it ended with a let down

The dialogue is clunky at times.

But overall a very entertaining first episode.

I don't know why I waited so long to start watching this, I was utterly hooked by the end of this episode so I just hope they can keep up the pace.

I barely recognise anyone aside from Robert Patrick and Hong Chau but that's fine, it lessens the chance of me being pulled out of it by familiar faces AND it gives me new actors to appreciate.

It's also probably going to give me a new book to read if it goes the way it's looking like going. Other than that, I'm out of stuff to ramble about in order to fill the character limit I'm supposed to fill so I'll just waffle a little longer until that quota is full.

I laughed so hard I wondered if I was actually watching a comedy. None of the character are actually believable. The acting appalling. Script should have been saved for a sitcom and no one knows how to use a firearm. I mean, the girl finds out her aunt and uncle have been murdered and all she cares about is that the agent works at the Whitehouse? Wtf!? And when she put the mirror on the floor- ha! She might as well have just put a sign on the closet door saying "Incredibly dumb victim in here! Lame cliche after lame cliche. Couldn't even finish the first episode. Think I'll just go rewatch The Last of Us.

The first episode (as far as I've gotten so far) sets the series up as a realistic depiction of political intrigue but has so many unrealistic plot points.

An agent wouldn't take a victim to their personal home.

Why are important back information sitting out on his desk?

Forced dialogue to get the viewer up to speed.

Horrible female actress.

Sloppy scene where he is accosted by thugs on the street.

Very changeable weather - rain, dry, rain, inconsistencies all over the horizon.

I'll give it another episode because the first episode is usually crap because getting viewers up to speed is difficult to do in a natural way. It doesn't look good for thinking viewers.