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FBI (2018)
Good show, poor CBS service
Good show, but NOT (despite the ads) included in CBS All Access, so I won't be watching. I watched one episode and then season one was no longer available, without paying, in All Access. It seems the All in All Access is false advertising!,
Alias: Almost Thirty Years (2002)
very interesting but
This was a very interesting and exciting episode to watch, but like many aspects of the show has some problems with credulity. Syndey runs into this huge room and stops with a look of astonishment and fear. The camera show a huge red ball which we know from the flashbacks to the earlier episode when she destroyed the Mueller Device (prototype?) is filled with water. Now from the camera angle it appears huge, but from the panning around the room as Sydney escapes the bad guys, we come to see doesn't fill a tenth of the room. Yet Sydney (idiotically!!) says, I'm going to have to swim out of here. Within that room the water might come to her knees (certainly no more than the waist). Yet miraculously the water is sufficient to not only flood that whole room but all the hallways she runs down and submerge Vaughn so that we are led to wonder whether he survives or drowns. Sorry, but that is ridiculous. There might be an inch or two reach that door, but it is physically impossible for it to drown him.
Revenge (2011)
Great Show
This is a very good show. I think Emily VanCamp is amazing. She outshines the 'veteran' (Madeleine Stowe), who comes across as rather wooden, while Emily appears poised and natural. While she appears conniving and on the evil side, the flashbacks to her past show that she was a wonderful child and has been twisted by what she was put through. Victoria is the truly evil one, and the attempts to soften that (the bits about how she loved David, Amanda/Emily's father) fall flat. It is not clear, however, who is the originator of the plot against David that put him in prison. One might suspect that it was Conrad as revenge for the affair with his wife Victoria, but the later development that Conrad's company was responsible for the money laundering that David was framed for indicates that the motivation was more complex. The plot is intriguing, though a bit convoluted. The introduction of Tyler adds interesting twists but is a bit overboard. He doesn't seem to serve any role other than to keep Emily from having too easy a job. I suspect an awful and humiliating end for him. If not, I will be rather disappointed. The subplot with Charlotte and Declan is interesting and entertaining. I like Jack and think he would be good for Emily/Amanda. Perhaps, after Amanda has finished dishing out revenge, he can be a source of healing for her. But that would be out of character for the show, wouldn't it?!