So bad that I kind of want to keep watching
Technically, I believe they've bitten off more than they know how to handle. They don't even know how to "act" like they know how to fight any size fire. It truly verges on ridiculous. I understand that the on-set fires need to keep burning for the scene at times, but when you're trying to put out a fire, you actually aim the hose at the fire, in particular, the base of it. They could REALLY use input from some actual firefighters.
That's all frustrating to watch, but the real problems are bigger. The writing is pretty bad. Very predictable (which has actually become part of the reason why I am still watching it, because now we have a game where we predict what will happen next and wait to see how accurate we are - usually very!), plots are either contrived or preachy, or both, and though I really enjoyed Max in Seal Team, I find his character here to be annoying. Bodi is a desperate martyr type, sad-sacking around, taking unnecessary risks and, usually, undeserved punishments, while he swoops in as a self-deprecating, overly humble hero in pretty much every episode, while life and circumstances keep pooping in his corn flakes.
All that said, most of the acting is pretty good, and I like a couple of the characters and their development, though sometimes I find some of their choices to be out of character or just too obviously devising a certain plot line for a single episode.
Yes, this show is pretty bad; the melodrama, the typical cast of almost exclusively pretty people (a very American habit), the cry baby central character, and the general lameness, but there's something about it that I still kind of like. That may just come down to how they keep rocking the inaccuracies full force, which makes us groan and eye roll, and how much fun we have predicting how things turn out. The novelty of which may wear off, and hangs in the balance of how much, if at all, this show improves.
Don't expect too much and you'll probably like it, at least a little.
That's all frustrating to watch, but the real problems are bigger. The writing is pretty bad. Very predictable (which has actually become part of the reason why I am still watching it, because now we have a game where we predict what will happen next and wait to see how accurate we are - usually very!), plots are either contrived or preachy, or both, and though I really enjoyed Max in Seal Team, I find his character here to be annoying. Bodi is a desperate martyr type, sad-sacking around, taking unnecessary risks and, usually, undeserved punishments, while he swoops in as a self-deprecating, overly humble hero in pretty much every episode, while life and circumstances keep pooping in his corn flakes.
All that said, most of the acting is pretty good, and I like a couple of the characters and their development, though sometimes I find some of their choices to be out of character or just too obviously devising a certain plot line for a single episode.
Yes, this show is pretty bad; the melodrama, the typical cast of almost exclusively pretty people (a very American habit), the cry baby central character, and the general lameness, but there's something about it that I still kind of like. That may just come down to how they keep rocking the inaccuracies full force, which makes us groan and eye roll, and how much fun we have predicting how things turn out. The novelty of which may wear off, and hangs in the balance of how much, if at all, this show improves.
Don't expect too much and you'll probably like it, at least a little.
- chompygator
- May 18, 2024