Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Doomtomylo
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
ShelbyTMItchell
Really great chemistry with an FBI agent and his younger brother, a math whiz as both solve crime by doing it with equations. The show proves you don't have to use a gun and violence to solve a crime. You can do it with your brain and teamwork.An underrated but great show. That is missed. And one of the few shows I admit to watching pretty regularly. David Krumholtz as the math genius brother Charlie and Rob Morrow as his FBI agent older brother, Don Epps. Along with Judd Hirsch as their widowed father.As we see the personal relationships with them and the FBI team of Don's. Which made the show great. Not just a crime of the week thing. But it is the chemistry of the two lead actors of Morrow and Krumholtz and the others really interesting!
amonjafarbay-50-730114
Having only watched a couple of episodes of season one, so I can't comment on the development that the show has probably shown to date, but from what I have seen the show is a pleasant enough twist on the traditional crime show. You've read the synopsis I expect, or seen the show, so I wont bother explaining the premise to you and just focus on the grit.The characters of the show are pretty basic, save the protagonist mathematician and Dr. Larry, who have the necessary eccentricities of their intellects, if being probably far more socially skilled than their real life counterparts - the main character was intended to be likable so we go the Will Hunting type of extreme genius who is practically fine at interacting with other human beings, sure it probably happens sometimes.The dynamic between the two brothers does not give off a family vibe in my opinion, but the acting overall is good quality, Peter MacNicol is great to watch as ever and his relationship with the main character is good fun to watch.My only major criticism is that the show suffers from an overabundance of exposition that makes it even harder to suspend disbelief, it practically slaps you in the face with its cold fish whilst shouting "I am a work of fiction". The cartloads of exposition is to be expected from the parts of the script where mathematics are involved, and even if its fairly rudimentary stuff - we're used to that, we know they're scared of looking too nerdy or cryptic and putting off viewers with all their mathematical gobbledygook. What must have happened is that when writing the script, having to explain all the mathematical jargon has influenced the style of the entire show, and it seems like characters are forever explaining everything to each other, clearly for our benefit. It just makes you want to groan.Saying all this I still find the show easy watching and relaxing. Its not brilliant in any shape or form but its just original enough and without too many layers of cheese that puts it a cut above a lot of other shows of this type that may have much higher production value.Its got charm, thats something you cant buy and makes the show appealing despite any shortcomings.
emswan2004
I completely agree with vibeke-2's review, this is an excellent show, refreshingly intelligent and free from gratuitous profanity and gore. David Krumholz and Judd Hirsch are the best, though I think Rob Morrow's part could've been more developed by the writers. That being said, I looked forward to watching this program every week. The interplay of characters, tempo and the inventive lighting (cool blue/gray for the FBI office, warm tones for home and old university math dept office} make for a refreshing hour's time-out each week. I was sorry it ended its run last May. The math-explanation segments can go a bit fast, but are visually illustrated as well, invaluable for non-mathematicians like myself. *I've heard episodes are shown at universities to teach math.
neofita
To cut the long story short: good idea of praising science in chase after crime completely spoiled by so-called "genius scientist(s)" that can infer, for instance, that it must be summer since sun is shining (it's exaggeration, of course, but it shows my point). It also adds some cops fitting into brainless muscles stereotype. Bad show, often unintentionally silly, almost always preposterous. The one and only bright side of the series is Rob Morrow, forever known as Dr Fleischman from old-school Northern Exposure series. Still, his brainless character doesn't fit him. At least, doesn't fit his former "doctor type". Maybe he should be the genius character and the script should be rewritten so that it had less "Gaussian distribution" along with other quasi-scientific babbling that is intended to cover scientific shallows of the show. "You may sit down, fail."
