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Another two bite the dust
Dec. 9th, 2018 10:22 pmTwo more shows just got deleted from the DVR "record series" listing, both for terminal stupidity.
I'd been annoyed with NCIS: New Orleans for quite a while, but I had hopes when Pride (the putative main character) was promoted to a supervisory job and was replaced by a competent non-cowboy group head. But clearly he was a victim of the Peter Principle: bored in his actual job and always sticking his nose into his old job.
The other one was The Resident, which is a medical show on FOX. I'd been dubious from the very start, but the idiot series arc plot with the money-grubbing incompetent head surgeon (to be fair, he had once been competent, but was in denial about an incurable tremor) and the oncologist who made money by diagnosing and "curing" cancer in healthy patients had mostly resolved by the end of the first season, so I gave the second season a chance. Now we have an even more idiotic series arc plot about inferior medical devices. And in both cases, the people investigating had zero sense of self-preservation or knowledge of operational security. I mean, really -- if you're in a facility where people are placing items made in China into boxes that say "Made in USA," the first thing a sane person would do would be to take a video and send it elsewhere. But no, instead she immediately goes running to her boss, who obviously has a well-covered-up good thing going.
On the other hand, I'm enjoying two new shows, FBI and The Rookie, rather more than I expected. And in both cases, it's because they manage to have interesting plot lines while still depicting the characters as competent at their jobs, instead of bungling into problems that they spend most the episode getting themselves out of.
Manifest is still on the bubble, but that's mostly because of my conspiracy anti-kink. I'll be interested to see what happens after the most recent plot twist, where it turns out that the NSA guy that appeared to be some kind of mastermind has just been made aware that there's more going on than he knows about -- and he's in a better position to investigate than the poor shlubs who were on the flight.
I'd been annoyed with NCIS: New Orleans for quite a while, but I had hopes when Pride (the putative main character) was promoted to a supervisory job and was replaced by a competent non-cowboy group head. But clearly he was a victim of the Peter Principle: bored in his actual job and always sticking his nose into his old job.
The other one was The Resident, which is a medical show on FOX. I'd been dubious from the very start, but the idiot series arc plot with the money-grubbing incompetent head surgeon (to be fair, he had once been competent, but was in denial about an incurable tremor) and the oncologist who made money by diagnosing and "curing" cancer in healthy patients had mostly resolved by the end of the first season, so I gave the second season a chance. Now we have an even more idiotic series arc plot about inferior medical devices. And in both cases, the people investigating had zero sense of self-preservation or knowledge of operational security. I mean, really -- if you're in a facility where people are placing items made in China into boxes that say "Made in USA," the first thing a sane person would do would be to take a video and send it elsewhere. But no, instead she immediately goes running to her boss, who obviously has a well-covered-up good thing going.
On the other hand, I'm enjoying two new shows, FBI and The Rookie, rather more than I expected. And in both cases, it's because they manage to have interesting plot lines while still depicting the characters as competent at their jobs, instead of bungling into problems that they spend most the episode getting themselves out of.
Manifest is still on the bubble, but that's mostly because of my conspiracy anti-kink. I'll be interested to see what happens after the most recent plot twist, where it turns out that the NSA guy that appeared to be some kind of mastermind has just been made aware that there's more going on than he knows about -- and he's in a better position to investigate than the poor shlubs who were on the flight.
