REVIEW:
CSI Killer? No, I think not. Not off the pilot anyway, I felt the show passed very quickly and moments that should have grabbed you continued on without a whisper. Like walking through a hot arid desert, and every time you reach for your water bottle for a drink you get a mouthful of humidity instead of cold water.
The show is centered around a doctor, who models David Caruso and the other guy, brilliant guys who have no life, except in this case our NIH doctor has no life and millions of other people's lives are potentially clinging on this guys decision regarding a mysterious diagnosis.
I don't know if I read this right, but apparently this doctor has psychic powers that would give Animal Planet's Pet Psychic a run for her money. In this first pilot, people are turning CGI blue and falling on the ground. Apparently this starts a timer that means in 12 hours they will be dead of something. Turns out it's a chemical poisoning of some kind.
While all this is going on, the youngest doctor of the NIH team is sent to Richmond VA, to diagnose a baby that looks to have been abused, however this particular family physician doesn't think it's simply "abuse" could be something else. I thought it was something else when the baby had CGI blue eyeballs, no one else thought so except the young Doogie Howser.
At the end of the show they reveal exactly what was causing the bruises and the CGI blue in both cases (different causes) however the lines and the reason was delivered so quickly and blandly the show came off like NBC was trying to force a spoonful of Robitussin into my mouth instead of hooking me on to something that I want to watch next week. I rate this pilot a 5 out of 10, I like the main guy (didn't catch his name) his team sucks so far, but it maybe to early to tell. Tomorrow apparantely they are going to fire off a 2nd episode.
NBC is desperate to knock off CSI, unless they capture a sense of the dramatic in this show, no way sir. For a pilot, I would expect something like a plot twist, or an underlying conspiracy, something that's drawing mass panic and hysteria, something exciting. Instead about the only thing that made me raise an eyebrow was the reporter who was purposely mislead into a corridor, then the floor lights are turned off to prevent him from "breaking" the story on CGI blue.
I felt mislead too...If this show fails to capture my interest, my eyes will turn to ABC's Lost as the next good network show.
It could sound so much better! Anyway, back to the football game...
