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First Friday Rant: Numb3rs

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Numb3rs

We like to think we only get the good stuff, the cream of the crop of American TV, over here in the UK. Sadly for every season of Sopranos, 6 feet Under, The Wire etc, there will always be an exception proving the rule.

 

In this case, I reluctantly draw your attention to Numb3rs. That’s right: in case we can’t read, they have even inserted a 3 where the e would appear. How clever of the production team to do so.

This is comfortably one of THE worst shows ever to grace my flat screen. Not only does the title itself patronise the viewer, but the acting is passable at best, the scripts and story-lines are preposterous and the whole show has a crap look and feel to it – trying to copy num3rous other shows (you see what I did there..?)

All things considered, this show is best described as “derivative”, trying to ape CSI and the like, but without even the tongue in cheek humour of NCIS.

So, thanks Numb3rs: you have deservedly Christened my first Friday Rant! Have a great weekend one and all.

2 thoughts on “First Friday Rant: Numb3rs”

  1. It was one of my favourites – not as a cop show, but for the two characters who made it different – Larry Fleinhardt, played by the always excellent Peter MacNicol and Diane Farr’s  “Megan Reeves. Their interactions were a highlight of the show for me, and Larry was a truly different character, a very odd fish to find in a procedural

  2. It was one of my favourites – not as a cop show, but for the two characters who made it different – Larry Fleinhardt, played by the always excellent Peter MacNicol and Diane Farr’s  “Megan Reeves. Their interactions were a highlight of the show for me, and Larry was a truly different character, a very odd fish to find in a procedural

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