What a great idea for a story... The discovery of how DNA could be adopted by forensic science to catch killers... Instead, we have the usual cast of familiar TV actors and a terrible script that managers to reduce this awesome moment in time to a sappy pantomime of cops and cute bumbling scientists.
It's just embarrassing to sit through some of these scenes as exposition is driven home to the viewer via the dinner table chit chat.
This nonsense is far less about the science and voyage of discovery, and more about the idiotic family dramas of the characters. The story plods unevenly between the cops and the egg heads with lots of comforting cliches to make us feel safe.
"Shouldn't you be looking for the killer?" "We're doing all we can, sir!"
"You're never at home anymore." "But DNA is more important."
The police have cutbacks, the scientists have awesome accidental discoveries, the victims cry a lot. Nothing original here, and a wasted opportunity to tell an important and fascinating story.
It's just embarrassing to sit through some of these scenes as exposition is driven home to the viewer via the dinner table chit chat.
This nonsense is far less about the science and voyage of discovery, and more about the idiotic family dramas of the characters. The story plods unevenly between the cops and the egg heads with lots of comforting cliches to make us feel safe.
"Shouldn't you be looking for the killer?" "We're doing all we can, sir!"
"You're never at home anymore." "But DNA is more important."
The police have cutbacks, the scientists have awesome accidental discoveries, the victims cry a lot. Nothing original here, and a wasted opportunity to tell an important and fascinating story.