User Reviews

Any episode that starts off with them opening a door that has near-vacuum on the other side and pulling it open outwards is not promising.

Without boring everyone with the math, the average size door would have over 50,000 pounds of force holding it closed against the near-vacuum. No way Mac is just pulling it open. Plus when they do pull it open, there is no rush of air from Mac's side to Desi's side.

Then Codex was going to decrypt a self-encrypting drive (likely a 256-bit cipher) with a couple of oscilloscopes? Really?

btw, the one on the right is a very old Tektronix scope that is older than most if not all of their team.

Maybe some of the issues with this episode were limitations on filming during a pandemic. or maybe it is filler while the writers work on getting Codex back running. Either way, not the most exiting episode.

This show has gotten ridiculous to the point it is very hard to watch. First, MacGyver breaks Desi out of some kind of hyperbaric chamber where the pressure is negative 200 and her lungs should have collapsed by then. How does MacGyver overcome the negative pressure on the door when he finally breaks the lock? Is it magic? I mean even kids in elementary school know what he did was impossible.

Next up, MacGyver rigs an old railroad pushcart so that it goes super-fast on the rails thanks to a couple of motors that he rigged, but where are the drive belts for the wheels? The wheels do not turn by magic, and there was no other shaft or drive for the engine to turn.

Next up, MacGyver and the team find the truck which has the top secret hard drive on it. So the villains are coming, and MacGyver tells Desi, and company to go hide, but he keeps the top secret drive, instead of giving it to them so it stays safe.

The villains come over, and ask him for the top secret hard drive, and he gives it to them. MacGyver then blows up the truck, expecting it to be some kind of goofy distraction, but the villains could care less, and just drive away with the hard drive. WTF? How dumb can MacGyver get? Why would he give them the hard drive at all?

At this point, this episode was so ridiculous that I turned it off. It might as well be a Roadrunner cartoon, or Bugs Bunny & Friends.