Professionals

It has Brendan Frazer's charm and enthusiasm, and Tom Welling's beautiful face, so I enjoyed it. Is it flat in spots and a bit predictable. Sure! Is it great TV, no, but it is definitely a fun watch. Lots of action, some trite dialogue and the back ground music is OTT on occasions but the story is good, there are some good plot twists, and the premise is rather cool. Don't know why so many have rated it so badly, as it is a nice enough show to veg out too and there is certainly always room for Brendan Frazer's goofy charm.

This was a huge let down, as an avid Brendan Fraser fan I decided to watch this resulting in being absolutely mortified by every minute of it. I would have given this negative stars if that were in any way possible. This has to be one of the worst shows I've seen in years. The premise and the unravelling of the plot is absurd. The stiff and wooden performances are, at best, distracted as is the direction. Cheap production values, a horrific script filled with cliché after cliché, laughable acting, there isn't one redeemable thing. This wasn't a funny kind of bad. It was just plain bad. Don't. Just. Don't.

It has the ingredients to be a decent show. Some of the casting differently doesn't fit. I gave the pilot some room for error because pilots always are a little jumpy. The second episode was a huge improvement. But this show has a long way to go before it becomes a interesting show to watch. Being a Tom Welling fan is keeping me in there. Also I expect more from a vet like Brendan Fraser as well. Let's just see where this season takes us.

It's really bad in about as many ways as possible but kind of watchable in a sense that you're interested in how bad they can actually make it

Now I'm not hateful person and, since I chose for some reason to watch this show, I feel I have to find some reward for those poor souls involved - * I felt the theme music, which was dangerously close to plagiarising the Avengers' theme tune, was the best part of the show and it was used frequently enough throughout each episode to turn it into a bit of an earwig * Some of the locations were very beautiful * The end credits were very clear and easy to read

Puts one in mind of 80s "A-Team", with cigar chewing Hannibal, some frivolity, and extras emerging every week from a hail of live ammunition. This one's more straight-faced, but pretty entertaining also, not for its attention to detail, but for its unabashed 'send-up' of dramas that take themselves too seriously. It's cleverer than you think to appear to satirize yourself whilst calling out the contrived situations of other mediocre shows. 'Professionals' is recommendable for good, tongue-in-cheek family viewing. Tom Welling is one of those familiar faces, with a saucy grin, who understands perfectly his role in this production - likeable, unorthodox, sartorial.