You know what I hate? I hate first episodes of new TV series that spend so much time explaining the basic plot setup and supplying so much background about each character, you feel as if you've just conducted a job interview.
That's what you'll get with the series premiere of "The Finder" on Thursday night: a lot of really bad dialogue filled with Information about each and every character in this spin-off of Fox's hit "Bones."
It's not as if I feel like raising my hand and snarling, "Hey, that's my job" to tell you who's who and where they came from, but by contrast, I was recently watching the first episode of a new BBC America series called "The Fades" and was not only impressed by how much it didn't feel obligated to tell me about when each character was potty trained or had that unsightly wart removed, but I also was more effectively hooked by the series.
Anyway,Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality, what you'll learn Thursday night is that the Finder of the show's title is a former military officer named Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults) who lives in the Florida Keys and finds things and people that others can't. His friend, Leo (Michael Clarke Duncan), owner of the End of the Earth bar, where Walter hangs out, handles the business end of the operation because, we learn later in a typically didactic piece of unlikely dialogue, Walter stopped him from killing a guy years before and Leo is forever in his debt.
Walter also has a sort of friends-with-benefits thing going with Deputy U.S. Marshal Isabel Zambada (Mercedes Masohn), with the benefits defined both as hookups and supplying information to help Walter with his cases. Other characters include Willa (Maddie Hasson), a teenage con artist on parole, and, in the first episode, Cooper Allison (Brett Davern), a teenage boy who wants Walter to find his missing father.
The kid's dad was flying solo when his plane was lost over swampland. The presumption is that he was running drugs. If he didn't die,China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. though,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, it means he turned his back on his son. Walter takes the case and soon realizes he has a connection to the kid's father. There's a dream sequence in the middle of the show that's absurd enough to make you want to bring back the curriculum vitae-style dialogue that lards up the rest of the episode. Overall, though,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, the central mystery takes a backseat to character exposition.
The show has promise, but the one thing it doesn't yet have that has made "Bones" such a survivor is chemistry. David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel play very well off each other in the older show as an FBI agent and forensic anthropologist, respectively. Their give-and-take doesn't break any molds, but it provides a certain energy that transcends whatever mystery may anchor any individual episode.
Stults, who got a big career boost on "7th Heaven," is potentially well suited to the starring role here because if you want someone to play an eccentric, it can be useful to hire someone who looks like the sanest guy in the room.
But with the first episode spending so much time and energy telling us about the characters, rather than, oh I don't know,The magic cube is an ultra-portable, having them actually show us who they are by acting a well-written script, it's hard to see where the chemistry potential is in "The Finder."
To survive, "The Finder" needs to find compelling character interplay. In the first episode, it's frustratingly MIA.
That's what you'll get with the series premiere of "The Finder" on Thursday night: a lot of really bad dialogue filled with Information about each and every character in this spin-off of Fox's hit "Bones."
It's not as if I feel like raising my hand and snarling, "Hey, that's my job" to tell you who's who and where they came from, but by contrast, I was recently watching the first episode of a new BBC America series called "The Fades" and was not only impressed by how much it didn't feel obligated to tell me about when each character was potty trained or had that unsightly wart removed, but I also was more effectively hooked by the series.
Anyway,Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality, what you'll learn Thursday night is that the Finder of the show's title is a former military officer named Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults) who lives in the Florida Keys and finds things and people that others can't. His friend, Leo (Michael Clarke Duncan), owner of the End of the Earth bar, where Walter hangs out, handles the business end of the operation because, we learn later in a typically didactic piece of unlikely dialogue, Walter stopped him from killing a guy years before and Leo is forever in his debt.
Walter also has a sort of friends-with-benefits thing going with Deputy U.S. Marshal Isabel Zambada (Mercedes Masohn), with the benefits defined both as hookups and supplying information to help Walter with his cases. Other characters include Willa (Maddie Hasson), a teenage con artist on parole, and, in the first episode, Cooper Allison (Brett Davern), a teenage boy who wants Walter to find his missing father.
The kid's dad was flying solo when his plane was lost over swampland. The presumption is that he was running drugs. If he didn't die,China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. though,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, it means he turned his back on his son. Walter takes the case and soon realizes he has a connection to the kid's father. There's a dream sequence in the middle of the show that's absurd enough to make you want to bring back the curriculum vitae-style dialogue that lards up the rest of the episode. Overall, though,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, the central mystery takes a backseat to character exposition.
The show has promise, but the one thing it doesn't yet have that has made "Bones" such a survivor is chemistry. David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel play very well off each other in the older show as an FBI agent and forensic anthropologist, respectively. Their give-and-take doesn't break any molds, but it provides a certain energy that transcends whatever mystery may anchor any individual episode.
Stults, who got a big career boost on "7th Heaven," is potentially well suited to the starring role here because if you want someone to play an eccentric, it can be useful to hire someone who looks like the sanest guy in the room.
But with the first episode spending so much time and energy telling us about the characters, rather than, oh I don't know,The magic cube is an ultra-portable, having them actually show us who they are by acting a well-written script, it's hard to see where the chemistry potential is in "The Finder."
To survive, "The Finder" needs to find compelling character interplay. In the first episode, it's frustratingly MIA.
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