With Criminal Minds now off the air and Hawaii Five-0 also going off the air (dunno if they finished production before the COVID-19 forced productions to shut down), I've been looking to fill the CM and H5-0 shaped holes in my TV watching. 15 and 10 seasons (respectively) is quite the time investment.
My history with Dick Wolf shows: Too young for the original L&O in its original run, saw SVU reruns on and off for years but haven't been watching the last few seasons closely. Don't get me started on the rest of the L&O spinoffs that didn't quite make it. I don't quite have the energy for the Chicago franchise on NBC.
So I thought I'd try Most Wanted because it only just came out earlier this year as a mid-season show. Only 8 episiodes to catch up on.
FBI: Most Wanted is a spinoff of erm, FBI, but this one is about the Fugitive Task Force where they, you know, hunt down fugitives. I've not seen the parent show FBI, but I've been watching the NCIS franchise this long without having seen JAG, so I think I'll live.
- This is probably the first I've seen Julian McMahon is NOT playing a bad guy? (In my lifetime, he's the bad guy in Charmed, the ambiguous Dr Troy in nip/tuck, and erm, Dr Doom in the earlier Fantastic Four movies)
- Isn't LaCroix that trendy sparkling drink I keep hearing about? Because that's all I'm going to think about every time I hear his name.
- Australians with American accents: McMahon's had his neutral American accent down for years; I dunno if Keisha Castle-Hughes (dunno if she identifies as Aussie or Kiwi more)'s character is supposed to be a New Yorker or something, but her American accent is leaning in that direction, reminiscent of Alex O' Loughlin's accent on H5-0.
- The black lady's American accent is also not bad. (Didn't know she was English)
- Which kinda makes Kellan Lutz the only American in that group?
- Wait, so when he's not working, he lives with his in-laws in a multi-generational household? Are they still in-laws since his wife passed?
- No complaints about the in-laws being of Native American descent. Yay for diversity?
- Wait, so the guy is also STILL WORKING with his brother-in-law?
- (Went back and saw the backdoor pilot on FBI) It's kinda weird watching both Kellan Lutz and Peter Facinelli on the (small) screen together again? OMG Matthew Lillard's forearm got blasted off! (I'm still kinda amused that for a guy best known to me as Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movies, he spends the rest of his career playing bad guys)
- I don't hate that the episodes kinda end with LaCroix at home with the fam.
In a way, Most Wanted is kind of the typical CBS procedural show - Julian McMahon as senior team leader, Kellan Lutz as the young male muscle, Castle-Hughes as the tech genius, yada yada yada.
I used to think that SVU and Criminal Minds was pretty dark, until holy shheeeettttt, this show get SO DARK (for a CBS show). Dunno if it's that, or just me getting older.
I don't know if the show got picked up for more episodes or is even getting a second season, but it wouldn't be the first time a star-studded spinoff show not make it far.
But yeah, will keep watching.
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