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Thought it blew MASSIVE chunks.
There is a kernel of a network-worthy premise somewhere in there, and the cast is filled with veterans, but it was as if a blind person threw together every recent trend in procedurals that had survived to cliche-level in a blender and splattered the results on the screen.
It wasn't enough that everything was exposition, it was repetitive exposition administered by a sledgehammer. They must have scripted the broad strokes about the family relationship and the strained law enforcement relations and the effect on the star's personality about two dozen times. Every time a new character came on the scene, whispers began anew 'his father, . . . his FATHER!!!' 'Out at the FBI!!' 'doesn't go by the books!!!'
If it had smirked even once, I might have bought it as satire. But it seems to be trying to play straight, which suggests to me that the best we're gonna get is memorably bonkers.
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We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics - E.W.
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