2012年1月17日 星期二

Fox’s ‘The Finder’ needs to find some chemistry

You know what I hate? I hate first episodes of new shows that spend so much time explaining the basic plot setup and supplying so much background about each character, you feel as if you’ve just conducted a job interview.

That’s what the series premiere of “The Finder”: a lot of really bad dialogue filled with Information about each and every character in this spin-off of Fox’s hit “Bones.”

It’s not as if I feel like raising my hand and snarling, “Hey, that’s my job” to tell you who’s who and where they came from, but by contrast, I was recently watching the first episode of a new BBC America series called “The Fades” and was not only impressed by how much it didn’t feel obligated to tell me about when each character was potty trained or had that unsightly wart removed, but I also was more effectively hooked by the series.

Anyway, the show’s title is a former military officer named Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults) who lives in the Florida Keys and finds things and people that others can’t. His friend, Leo (Michael Clarke Duncan), owner of the End of the Earth bar,Promat solid RUBBER MATS are the softest mats on the market! where Walter hangs out, handles the business end of the operation because, we learn later in a typically didactic piece of unliikely dialogue,Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious Floor tiles from The Tile Shop. Sherman stopped him from killing a guy years before and Leo is forever in his debt.

Walter also has a sort of friends-with-benefits thing going with Deputy U.S. Marshal Isabel Zambada (Mercedes Masohn), with the benefits defined both as hookups and supplying information to helInformation on useful yeasts and moulds,p Walter with his cases. Other characters include Willa (Maddie Hasson), a teenage con artist on parole, and, in the first episode, Cooper Allison , a teenage boy who wants Sherman to find his missing father.

The kid’s dad was flying solo when his plane was lost over swampland. The presumption is that he was running drugs. If he didn’t die, though, it means he turned his back on his son. Sherman takes the case and soon realizes he has a connection to the kid’s father. There’s a dream sequence in the middle of the show that’s absurd enough to make you want to bring back the curriculum vitae-style dialogue that lards up the rest of the episode. Overall, though, the central mystery takes a backseat.

The show has promise,Can't afford a third party merchant account right now? but the one thing it doesn’t yet have that has made “Bones” such a survivor is chemistry.China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel play very well off each other in the older show as an FBI agent and forensic anthropologist, respectively. Their give-and-take doesn’t break any molds, but it provides a certain energy that transcends whatever mystery may anchor any individual episode.

With the first episode spending so much time and energy telling us about the characters, rather than, oh I don’t know, having them actually show us who they are by acting a well-written script, it’s hard to see where the chemistry potential is in “The Finder.”

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