Forever (TV Series) The King of Columbus Circle (2015) User Reviews

Bloodline

[Rawnok · 10/10 · 11 February 2015]

i think it was the best episode till now.

I don't want to give away any spoilers. so i won't go into the story itself. I just want to say that after 1st episode,this is my favorite episode till now. It really shows values to the bloodline tree and our relationships in this world. Morale, virtue and more.

Really an awesome and more importantly an unique story. I loved it so much. Its hard to describe in words. Thank you "Forever" for this series and especially for this episode. I really like this series very much.

I have become an official fan of Ioan Gruffudd (Henry) and Alana De La Garza ( Jo ).

Best wishes for them.

Looking forward to see the next episode.

Wait, what?

[AzSumTuk · 6/10 · 1 August 2015]

Don't get me wrong, I like the show. I kinda love it, in fact, despite its flaws. But this is precisely the kind of an episode that, I am positive, led to its cancellation. Yes, it is badly written, and no, it doesn't deserve the rating of 9/10 that it has right now. Honestly, I am not sure it is even worth of the 6/10 I am giving it.

Let me try to explain. There will be spoilers.

OK, now I know what African-Americans feel when they see blackface comedy. Now I can understand. Born and raised in Eastern Europe, I was somewhat appalled by the way Eastern Europeans were shown in this episode. Every single negative stereotype you can think of is here. With few exceptions, Eastern Europeans are presented as vindictive, malevolent, sexist, stupid pigs. Yes, even the "good guys" among them. It seems to me that the writers went for a fictional country to avoid offending someone, but that just doesn't cut it. Eastern Europeans are just not like that. At least the ones that I know. And, by the way, yaks are not Eastern European animals. They live in the Himalaya mountain.

The other and more important problem is with the plot holes. There are too many of them. The basic idea is actually very nice, but then we are presented with the King of Urkesh - he is shown to be a nice, likable old man... and then we are told that he is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. We are told that he has ordered that thousands of people be tortured or killed. We are told that, in short, he is worse than Stalin. It seems that the writers couldn't decide if he was a good man or an incarnation of Satan himself, so they went with both. Then there is the crime itself, which is not just unrealistic, it is downright impossible to commit. You can't just buy some polonium-210, and if you manage to do that, then you are definitely not dumb enough to leave your fingerprints all over the crime scene - which is exactly what the culprit had done with his second attempted murder. And there are other plot holes as well, but I will not waste your time with them.

That being said, there are enough good moments to justify watching this episode. The acting is as good as ever, and it is visually pleasing. I don't regret watching it.

The King Is Dead

[mark_j_velasquez · 4/10 · 4 September 2020]

And along with him the show. The previous episode was a disappointment and now this train wreck, pun intended, has sealed the fate of this series. Urkesh? An illegitimate princess? Radiation poisoning? The only good things were Abe's enthusiasm for discovering his family tree and the baby prince. Henry hasn't died in a while so there's no chance Jo will find out his secret. Her coming close might give the show back some of its prior momentum.