People were telling me how great this show is, and thought I would check it out. I got through the entire first season hoping at some point it would get better, but it never did. I watched the first episode and a half of season two and just couldn't take it any more.
The acting is a lot like the 1970's Gone in 60 Seconds. The "tips" for being a spy are absolutely ridiculous and the technology-coolness is so unbearably stupid. The "jokes" are pretty terrible and repeat themselves every episode.
About the technology, very mild spoiler ahead (not really a spoiler but I guess someone could call it one): To find out where a warehouse is, he decides to crack a cell phone open and removes the "GPS chip" and inserts it into a shoe. His partner then goes on line and watches where he is taken by the bad guys. It makes absolutely no sense. How can a GPS chip function without any kind of battery, and then how can it transmit wirelessly without the rest of the cell phone? I can suspend disbelief for things like this (as in Firewall, which also was stupid this way), but when half the show is this guy giving out these tips as if it's educational.... it crosses the line.
Some of the events that occur are fairly interesting, and there are some decent scenes but it really, absolutely is not worth the time sitting through the awful acting, flat, obvious characters, and sheer ridiculousness to see.
The acting is a lot like the 1970's Gone in 60 Seconds. The "tips" for being a spy are absolutely ridiculous and the technology-coolness is so unbearably stupid. The "jokes" are pretty terrible and repeat themselves every episode.
About the technology, very mild spoiler ahead (not really a spoiler but I guess someone could call it one): To find out where a warehouse is, he decides to crack a cell phone open and removes the "GPS chip" and inserts it into a shoe. His partner then goes on line and watches where he is taken by the bad guys. It makes absolutely no sense. How can a GPS chip function without any kind of battery, and then how can it transmit wirelessly without the rest of the cell phone? I can suspend disbelief for things like this (as in Firewall, which also was stupid this way), but when half the show is this guy giving out these tips as if it's educational.... it crosses the line.
Some of the events that occur are fairly interesting, and there are some decent scenes but it really, absolutely is not worth the time sitting through the awful acting, flat, obvious characters, and sheer ridiculousness to see.