riverzak

This is a show that should never have been revived. I just finished episode 6 and I don't know if I will make it to the end.

The show just doesn't work without Dr. Reid.

The story is as exciting as watching paint dry. A 3-4 episode arc at best is stretched out to 10 episodes. Yawn.

I'm tired of Penelope wearing clothes with her boobs hanging out. That was never appropriate dress for an FBI employee. And she just gets whinier and more pathetic as the story progresses.

Paget Brewster seems to have lost the ability to act.

Joe Mantegna - always a delight but we once again got the trope of "guy/gal talks to people who aren't there." At least for once it really was an indication of a mental problem (unlike every other time this happens in a show).

Please please please please please can we stop with the trope where the cops storm into a room and the bad guy just happens to be next to the hostage with a knife at her throat? I actually swore at the TV when this happened yet again. There must be a rule where every hostage incident on TV has to end in this type of standoff. The only time this was ever done right was on Firefly where instead of a negotiation, Malcolm just pulled his gun and shot the bad guy without breaking stride or saying a word.

Here's my basic problem with some shows NOT on basic cable. While I personally do not have a problem per se with swearing and crude content, that should not comprise eighty percent of a show. It seems that everyone on this show has to drop f-bombs at every opportunity, and every opportunity between every two opportunities. A note to the writers - just because you are allowed to swear and include crude content, doesn't mean that you are required to. A recent episode in season two obsessed on the term "corn holing". This was totally unnecessary and totally unfunny. And it was totally unnecessary to mention it more than a dozen times. When I make soup I like to add a little salt. By a little I mean a few pinches. If I made the soup eighty percent salt it would be inedible. The same applies to salty language. It is not a substitute for good writing and completely overshadows what could be interesting and amusing stories.

Ricky Gervaise included bad language and coarse content in his remarkable series, After Life, but he did it in such a way that it did not overpower what was a touching and interesting exploration of one man's grief after losing the love of his life.

Season 11 was one of the best ever. Alone was getting a little stale with far too much introspection and far too little coverage of things like shelter construction. The only down side was in the second follow-up special which detailed the contestants after leaving their shelters. While it did satisfy my curiosity as to how they made out medically and emotionally after tapping out, the host (a former competitor from season three) felt compelled to use each competitor's story as a springboard to talk about himself and his experiences from season three. He would have better served the audience by focusing solely on the current survivors.