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Pilot review: The pilot really clips right along, murder murder murder. I thought they were setting up a serial killer to be the nemesis for the whole season but they wrapped the case in one episode, so I think that will be the format for the series.

The two main actors are talented but the script is overly clever in some cases and overly stupid in others. This might just be growing pains and the show could settle into a decent series.

I was at first reminded of the series Numb3rs, as the professor is nerdy and working with the police, but that fades quickly. The prof is ex-CIA, which is interesting, but its unclear how that is going to work out in the long run. I think they will simply end up falling back on his CIA contacts to provide the needed information in almost every case... like they did with the first episode.

The media made a big deal about the actor being gay and playing a gay man, apparantly its the first time there has been a leading man played by a gay man. I seriously doubt that. Maybe first time on one of the old TV networks. CBS breaking new ground in 2018. The prof's sexual preference and fastidiousness is hardly a big part of the show. At least it wasn't in the first episode. Honestly, I got the impression the character wanted to ditch his man and go back to the wild CIA spy life carrying a gun and solving crimes with hot chick cops on his arm.

The female cop is kind of a typical female cop, she doesn't get along with anyone, there is a tradgedy in her past that has her being emotional at the drop of dime, and she opens up to the first gay man she meets. Best friend and substitute boyfriend is a dog.

I was also slightly reminded of the show Elementary, with the prof being Sherlock and the cop being Watson, who is a cop instead of an ex-doctor. The prof's office even reminded me of the Elementary Brownstone, though much nicer.

Writer One says to Writer Two, we haven't done a show about a gay ex-CIA multiple Phd. pychology professor and a tempermental female cop yet. What would that be like?

This book series/show is a little bit like Anne of Green Gables in Reverse, but more like the industrial revolution version in London 1887. Instead of spending her life in the orphan system and then being ejected into a rural family life, Hetty is raised by a family in the suburbs of London and only thrown into the orphan system when she is a young girl. There doesn't appear to be any reason for this action.

The first episode almost immediately skips passed the early childhood times, and we see Hetty as a pubescent girl working "training" to be a domestic servant in the orphan home. Think: slave labor. They mostly skip the no doubt brutal treatment that the girls and boys assuredly received during this era of debtors prisons and public executions.

I dropped it, but it appears to turn into a young teenage fantasy about escaping the "hospital" orphan home and living their lives outside the orphan system.

The girl that plays the Hetty part is a very ordinary girl and the show definitely would have benefited from choosing a more charismatic person to play the part. She is kind of homely as well. Not easy on the eyes. (The picture above must have been photoshopped). Who wants to watch ugly people. The other kids tease her and call her Sweaty Hetty. Though I think she wins them over with her brazenness.

I couldn't make it through the first episode, its not a show for me, but you might like it. Again, it is kind of like Anne of Green Gables... but much less charming.

This show started strong, like a lot of shows do, but it fizzled in the end. It suffered from unlikeable characters and a case of what I call The Cousin Oliver syndrome. A reference to The Brady Bunch, and how when they had no more plot, they simply invented a new character named Cousin Oliver to be the focus of another season. USoT did the same kind of thing with the Gimme character, but then seemed to realize that there was no point in the new character and then almost never use it. But they also went in the complete opposite direction and kept using the same characters over and over again. For a show that started off very creative, it ended after three seasons in a sad rut. I was glad she jumped off the bridge. Overheard in my apartment 5 years ago: "Another 'Buck' episode, I hate Buck."

The subplots suffered from a lack of imagination as well, and the sister charcter degenerated into a young woman pimping herself on the internet for free gifts - because prostitution is the only way for a young woman to get ahead. It was one of those shows that is 5 stars the first season and 1 or 2 stars by the third season that they should not have bothered making. It was a fav that become a dud. Kind of a fun weird show who's personality changed into a boring weird show.

If you like weird personality type of shows, I would recommend watching the first two seasons and then dropping it like a short annoying clumsy cousin Oliver.