A scientist is kidnapped, her husband held hostage to blackmail her, and it is up to the Blooms to get her back. JJ Abrams is a genius. He is the creator of Alias, Lost and Fringe. So it’s bamboozling to see that he has written the first two utterly generic episodes.
Something bad happens (in this case a scientist in Pakistan with a history of working with explosives is kidnapped and forced to make a bomb when her husband is also kidnapped and held hostage), the CIA, because apparently nobody competent works in the CIA, enlists the Blooms to help and after following some links and wearing little clothes, they save the day and go home to be very cutesy wootsey.
Are we really supposed to believe that Kruger just shot the scientist, just so she could literally gasp where Kruger was and where the bomb was?
Mbatha-Raw and Kodjoe as Sam and Steven have great chemistry, but that’s all they have going for them. The script treats them like a new couple still flirting with each other, not a couple who have been together for five years. The “nammering” as Shaw put it, is so off putting.
I’m not sure why Leo was reintroduced in this episode. They explained that it was to help them out after they got into some difficulty, but really it was a lame excuse for some tension between the married couple. Carter MacIntyre and Ben Schwartz as Leo and Hoyt respectively suffer from a script that makes their characters utterly lifeless and really annoying: their only purpose appears to be to either praise or serve the Blooms.
There is no grit, nothing holding this show to the ground. Why are the Blooms in the CIA? Why does the CIA need the Blooms? None of this is explained or shown (haven’t they got other spies?)
Undercovers might want to take note from Alias or the more light-hearted NCIS. For now, it’s too hyper and sugary to sustain attention.
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