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Bull (new series with Michael Weatherly) US PACE
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ep1 - ok I guess. Had elements from the Lie To Me series. But where THAT series was frickin awesome and I've marathoned it a number of times and will do so again, going by this opening ep, THIS series looks like being a single-time-watcher and one I won't mind missing. Will give it a couple more eps just to see if anything wowzerie reveals itself, but at the mo I just this to be a meh.
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According to Rotten Tomatoes it has a 25% rating from critics, with only 46% of viewers saying they liked it (Link), and is ranked 32 out of 32 so far this TV season (Link)
Still it got a 2.2 rating, almost all shows drop in their second episode. This one may have been so badly received that it goes into freefall.
I'm with you there and again he doesn't have the gravitas to hold his own show in such a way I feel. Loved him originally in Dark Angel by got so tired of him on NCIS.
Think its going to be a very pale imitation of things like Lie to me and Mentalist, even Forever and without a charismatic lead there is no hope. I call cancelled.
I loved Lie to Me Roth was brilliant in it and the show had a really good premise. Not sure what to think of Bull just yet. As with all new shows I will give it the recommended (though by whom I have no idea) four-episode test. If I am still feeling 'meh' about it after those four then I will give it the burial my judgement feel it deserves. There are so many new shows this year that I won't exactly be short of stuff to decide about.
Then there the meh shows. The ones whose pilot didn't wow me but I found it mildly interesting, or there is a cast member I like seeing on tv, which will keep the show on my towatch list but one I'll watch after I've seen the ones I really like. Such a meh show might be upgraded to wow or kick out if meh turns to bleh or i just forget to watch it for a couple of weeks amd cant be assed to catch up.
Maybe this wow/bleh decision comes at the 4 ep mark.
As I said before, needed a few episodes, but I only watched two, and like you say. that was enough to make my mind up. Too repetitive. So given up on this one already.
Di Nozzo (?) as a character was annoying throughout his time on NCIS. You'd start to warm to him and then he'd do something so infuriating or his character would be a constant pain in the proverbial that you wanted him gone. It was a cycle repeated many times over the years.
Agree, this was why I got tired of Numbers and Lie To Me.
You can only describe how it works so many times.
The Incredible Hulk always turned green twice but we loved it because we related to the fury. Ghost Whisperer always resolved the issue between the living and the dead but we loved it because the sentimentality always made us cry.
With shows like this, if ever they get worried about sameness and go off piste, that is usually when they go off the rails and lose their USP and their popularity.
That's a fair point. Just look how many zillions of CSI episodes were churned out with essentially the same plot. If a procedural is done well then you know what you are going to get so you can just switch your brain off for 40-odd minutes with no complex ongoing story arcs to follow and it doesn't matter if you occasionally miss an episode.
However, I'd still like to see a little more character development in the supporting cast as they still seem a little anonymous.
For me that's Conviction on my list so far 2 eps in, not sure Bull will be sustainable
I'm willing to give Conviction a chance (even if it's just for the lovely Ms Atwell) but I'm not yet convinced by it. The 5 day time limit for each case just seems so artificial and needless. At least it's better than the dire Notorious which I have already dropped.
I enjoyed ep3 of Bull. Nice take on the Serial podcast and it was good to see Sarah Steele again who was one of my favourite recurring actors in the Good Wife.
I normally give things to episode 4 but I love Hayley Atwell so am willing to see where this goes for a few extra.
Got episode 3 of Bull to watch yet
It's a fairly lightweight undemanding watch so I'm sticking with it for now. It's very predictable though and could do with a little more variation. It wouldn't hurt them to lose a case once in a while.
How many have you watched?