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Couldn't make it through the first episode.


Was incredibly bored watching it. Bummer.

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It's not boring William Fichtner is in it.

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Way too many commercial breaks. Even armed with a DVR, that gets annoying.

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2 hours so yea it will have commercial break, when the episode in total is 1 hour 25 min. that's 35 min of commercial.

oh and it looks better on computer or stream from pc to tv. aka downloads.

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Gotta love Netflix. No commercials!

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For me it is the poor writing.


The dialogue is awful.

The writers seem to have no knowledge of European policing. Europol? French police throwing them in jail?

Coincidences, the shoe happens to be personalised, the killer turns up at the shoe shop at the exact same time, she wakes up at the check point, the puncture.......

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Don't forget the magical crime scene Holograph scanner lol. That was like something out of Minority Report..

And the tired cliché of one cop being extremely pissed at somebody on 'their' crime scene

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And Pee Wee Herman as the killer....

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For you. For me, I loved it.

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LOL at all these replies :)





"I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book." ~ Bradbury

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tried to watch the fist season, but honestly: the single most dysfunctional crime force in the world.

The Major with the weepy, whiny wife. (God, please Demetrov: I will pay you to kill her!)...
The Genius Deductive Detective who can't deduce that an amputation will stop the pain...
The (requisite) IT Nerd that need Gambler's Anonymous AND isn't sure he boinked the chick whose kid MIGHT be his...
The (requisite) Irish Fighter and weapons expert with a chip on his shoulder, who is also a bare-knucke fighter (serious badasses, them) but can't beat one bad guy, so a lady cop has to shoot said bad guy...
The (requisite) Hot Italian chick who's the product of drug kingpin, and now has to prove she's a good guy, but can't keep her mouth shut.
The (requisite) French Hot Chick who... well, no one knows. She was in the pilot, and was on screen for a couple of seconds the rest of the season. Then she wasn't. Then...
The Leader who pontificates and philosophizes to anyone and everyone who is willing to listen, and even to those who WON'T, including pigeons he CAN'T feed. He has about as much leadership skill as a Brownie Troop leader.

Who all work for an organization that has NO police force, NO legal authority, and whose only agenda is war criminals, perpetrators of genocide and aggression, and only when the host country won't.

Really: These people were the cream of European crime fighters?

Barney Miller was more intense and unpredictable.

..Joe

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Well, to be honest
a) amputation won't erase the pain. The ghost member pain is probably even more difficult to treat than a bad injury
b) his hand is supposedly getting a little better and perhaps he hopes one not so useful hand is better than no hand at all.

On the rest, I more or less agree with you, I don't understand why the show is not about an elite team inside the interpol or something like that.

I haven't finish season 1 yet but I don't understand the point of Anne Marie if she barely is in the show, and I hate the wife of the French boss. I mean, I understand she is in terrible grief, but blaming her husband because he decided to get out the house without taking the car? That is too much...

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Wait until you see Season 2 on that last comment! You'll be surprised. I like this show a lot. I have a willing suspension of disbelief about the things that aren't so great because it is set in Europe and because I like most of the actors/characters.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

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