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FBI: Safe Room (2020)
Worst ending ever.
You can often forgive terrible writing if an episode compels you emotionally to a satisfactory ending but this episode heaps bitter disappointment on top of bitter disappointment. The story promises so much yet fails to deliver on even the most basic level. What could have be a fantastic, adrenalin-filled story is instead a lazily crafted, anger-inducing steaming pile of ineptitude.
No hostage negotiator worth their salt would choose to storm a safe room under the circumstances in this story and yet the writers have Jubal doing exactly that.
I could believe that a desperate father might kidnap a rich kid to compel authorities to find his missing child. I could even believe (at a stretch) that failure to find her might lead that father to kill his hostage victim but I cannot believe that he would do so simply because his now-found daughter is in a coma and unable to talk. That is inconsistent with the father's character and human nature. As a parent I would have been so relieved that they'd found her that I would have surrendered once I'd seen video proof of her safety.
Instead the writers have Jubal order troops to storm the room, thus risking the hostage's life, troops lives and the father's life all because he thinks the father is too unstable to hear the truth even though everything we know about the perp/father says the opposite, even though everything we know about hostage negotiation tells us de-escalation techniques would have been far more effective.
The episode ends with Jubal moronically agreeing with the critically wounded father that the ends justify the means (really??) then the father flatlining! The closing shot is one of paramedics trying to revive the father!
That is what angered me the most - the entire episode compels the audience to feel for the perp/father, to become invested in his cause and by default, his 'daughter' too but we are robbed of any satisfaction. The missing daughter, who's been through hell in the last year (her Mom died, was made to go live with a dad she didn't know, was kidnapped, trafficked and forcefully hooked on drugs) will awaken from her coma having lost the only person in the world who cared for her.
Terrible, terrible episode.
For the People (2018)
Shallow, contrived and narcissistic.
As someone who enjoys legal dramas I expected so much more from this show; it didn't just fail to meet my expectations, it made me angry. Imagine Legally Blonde as a non-comedic legal drama with carbon copies of the characters from How To Get Away With Murder and you can begin to see where this all falls apart.
The pilot featured one particular case that was treated as though the defendant didn't exist. Did I watch a legal drama or a debate team prep? The focus was solely on the beautiful people having a boohoo moment over losing the case/boyfriend/spotlight which wouldn't be too awful if the characters weren't vapid, self-obsessed and two-dimensional. Hard pass on this one.
Shot in the Dark (2017)
Austin Raishbrook is no hero
Regardless of the quality production of this show it doesn't deserve the high rating people are giving it. This series reveals the depths people will go to in order to make a buck. Not only are the people who are featured in the show profiting off of the suffering of others, so is the company that made the show. What's more, in some cases, they're actually complicit in causing that suffering. The very first episode features one nightcrawler, Austin Raishbrook, filming a stalled vehicle on a motorway. It's night time, the vehicle is black and loses all its lights. He knows what's coming and does nothing but continue filming. One passing vehicle clips the stalled vehicle and still he films. Then a vehicle slams into the back of the stalled vehicle causing it to burst into flames.
That, in my opinion, is absolutely disgusting. Many reviewers say the UK born Austin Raishbrook isn't as bad as the other nightcrawlers on the show - I don't share that opinion. The occupant of that car nearly died because of him. What makes it worse is that in other episodes he continues to promote his own hero status - openly talking with his brother how he saved the man's life. Yes, it's true he pulled the guy from a burning car but he was complicit in that accident happening and willfully put others at risk for money. How would he want people to act if it had been his child in that car?
I'm sure others out there will love the thrill and drama but I'm not one of them. I have no desire to watch people who are willing to overlook human safety & well-being in order to make money.