Interesteg What makes it different from others?

GazerRise Fantastic!

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

moni This is not something that pretends to be reality. Don't fool yourself. This is constantly yankee point of view of what terrorists are. You will never understand the real reasons that are to turn someone from average citizen to cold blooded terrorist. After all, that is what cinema are to tell us - the roots. None here. All characters are one sided and one dimensional. Pure binary representatives of human characters which cannot be seen in the real life. Apart from awful acting and numerous factual errors, this is just pure propaganda series which are meant to be shown only in America and I am mostly disturbed our local TV decides to show it at prime time.1/10 from me and that is more than it deserves.

Alex-372 I don't like this mini series. It tries to be "24", but it doesn't have the guts, the writing ability or the actors to get away with it.No one in this series is likable. I don't like the switching back and forth between uppercrust English (Hari Kumar, anyone?) and arabic dialog, because no one talks like that. Dermot Mulroney who is no Kiefer Sutherland, comes of as a selfrighteous prick, Jemma Redgrave looks plain (unlike the rest of the family), and the British cast seems to have walked straight out of one of the myriad of second tier British cop series.When watching this stuff, I thought "there are Miami Vice episodes made 20 years ago that this dreck couldn't touch". And that's with all modern technology.

Decrypt3 This comment contains spoilers, unless you've seen the third episode.The release of "The Grid" could not have come at a better time. One of the primary conflicts in the series is the bureaucracy involved between the various American and British intelligence agencies, right when we're in the midst of all this stuff in the real world about an "intelligence czar" and a national counter-terrorism center. One of the series' merits is that it shows what could happen if the government lets bureaucracy get in the way of actually fighting terrorism.Some have objected to "The Grid" on the basis of its being racist. I have two counter- arguments. The first is that Muslim extremists are the group identified by a lot of Americans as the primary terrorist group in the world, so involving any other group would not "click" with audiences. Sad but true, I know. The second counter-argument is that the series makes an effort to humanize the antagonists. Ragib Mutar, for example, gets unwillingly caught up in the terrorist plot, initially only because he wants the best for his patients, and he suffers greatly for his involvement.Most of the actors are good enough to hold up the story. The exceptions are, unfortunately, the two main actors, the only ones who are named in the trailers: Julianna Margulies and Dylan McDermott. Neither of them seems to be able to evoke the appropriate emotions on screen. I can't speak for Margulies, but I know McDermott is a fairly good actor (from seeing him on "The Practice"). Here, he's either not trying or he's miscast.The supporting actors are excellent, especially Tom Skerritt, Jemma Redgrave and Bernard Hill. Hill was a superb choice to play Derek Jennings - he is a natural tough guy and very British. He even looks like a grizzled veteran. You don't see him really act like one until the third episode - see below - but when he does, he's amazingly convincing. Redgrave creates mystery around her character very well - you can never be sure exactly what she's thinking or what her intentions are. We see that the character can be very cool and calm, but at other times she shows emotion, but you get the feelings those emotions might be fake.Especially during the pilot episode, the action seemed to drag a bit too long. The pace only really started to pick up towards the end, where the FBI raids a warehouse. I never really felt a lot of suspense and adrenaline except for one scene in the third episode involving Derek Jennings in an elevator. That made my heart pound crazily. You see Bernard Hill's skill as an actor - you can tell he's suspicious of the assassin, but you can't tell that he knows who he is. You wonder if Jennings' experience and training will save his life or if he will become just another victim.I look forward to the finale, when all the intricate plot threads will finally come together (hopefully). I will definitely be watching it, and I hope it doesn't go downhill.

Identification The Grid is a show starring Dylan McDermott and Julianna Marguilies, among a host of other characters, who are involved in an interagency counterterrorism team, trying to apprehend a cell based in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and New York.The plot is relatively average (reminded me of the Siege, although I thought the Siege was much, much better), but it moves along really well. I wasn't bored.The visual effects are really cool--- the opening credits are a neat trick, and the scenery of different countries appears to be quite accurate, which you don't often get with TV shows.The characters are somewhat one-dimensional (one woman is very driven and very rude, another is vengeful after a friend's death, and one is a good man who is unwillingly drawn into a terrorist scheme) but they're still entertaining. This isn't exactly award-winning, nor is it worthy of the Top Five TV-Shows Of All Time, but I had a good time. As long as you don't judge too highly it's a pretty good few hours.SPOILER:The only thing I didn't like was the angst regarding 9/11. They make reference to this *all the time*--- Dylan McDermott's character had a friend who was killed at the World Trade Center and he's very bitter about it. Granted, this was a horrible thing that happened, and victim's family and friends have been through a lot of suffering--- but I get it, you don't need to tell me five times. That's really my only complaint.Bottom line: Pretty good. Not totally awesome and cool and addictive, but pretty good.