Sundays 10pm, NBC, starting (and hopefully ending) March 16, 2014
Gillian Anderson, Dermot Mulroney, Rachael Taylor, Lance Gross
So. Crisis. It's crap.
This particular show has been done over and over and over now. The giant conspiracy, where everyone's a suspect, the stakes are the the world itself, and somebody has an impossibly elaborate scheme to do something stupid that doesn't need to be done at all.
This time it's a professional kidnapping of the teenage kids of a dozen different high-power families. Tycoons, diplomats, the US president... you know, the kind that are always going on field trips together. On a fucking bus. But it's not gonna be for ransom, that's for sure. No, this is all in service of a much larger design, some plot to take over something, control something, destroy something, whatever who cares. Tune in each week for another reveal that goes nowhere!
Hack writing. Canned direction. No characters, just actors hitting their marks and reciting their lines. Which is sad, because there's a handful of actors in Crisis who are better than the material they've been given.
I've seen this show before. The Event. Flash Forward. The Nine. Revolution. Vanished. So many times, over and over. And I've never stuck with any of them. This is paint-by-numbers TV, and I just don't have the time.
Well, maybe I'll watch one more episode. Just to be sure.
Dammit.
