Review of Lockdown

The Last Ship: Lockdown (2014)
Season 1, Episode 6
6/10
More Stereotypes Emerging
12 October 2021
I am not sure why I continue watching this irritating show. Perhaps it's global pandemic we are currently living with its spectre of another, infinitely worse, one. Perhaps it's the hope that it will move on to more developed character depth and plot sophistication.

It's not there yet. In this episode, we see the usual issues with disease shows: crew disaffection, the trouble maker who stirs it up for his own selfish reasons, distrust of the laboratory experiment and leadership uncertainty about how much to share.

And, the most irritating of the irritating continues to be an opinionated, righteous scientist standing as the brave resilient, individual, quest for truth.

In the end, though, the nobility of true leaders, along with some scarcely credible use of the lab and lots of corny music, saves the day, as we might expect.

Some of the other crew members are beginning to become more interesting. Still waiting, but maybe it will be develop.
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