Reviews

Would at least one writer on this show please inject some intelligence into at least one character? The stupidity has become laughable. Most of the "peril" on this show is not due to the "dead" but to the characters' complete lack of common sense. In particular the teenagers are the most useless and moronic. Not only do they consistently make bad choices, but they make the choice that puts the most people in danger. Of course all is always forgiven with a whimpering "I'm sorry, I didn't know." This is scrip writing at it's most pathetic. If it hadn't been for the immense popularity of TWD, this show would have been long gone. If the producers have more sense then these characters, they would jettison this show before the stench gets too thick and start over again later after the smell subsides.

The score is more for the unabashed gross incompetence of the law enforcement officials than the quality of the program, but it just didn't sit well with me. Under search warrant, law enforcement officials went to the apartment of a mother accused of poisoning her child with excessive amounts of salt (sodium). After entering her apartment, they immediately see an IV bag in the kitchen with a white substance in it and another mostly empty IV bag in the garbage. These absolute morons chose not to collect them for evidence because the woman being investigated who lied to them about everything she was questioned on, told them she was still feeding her child breast milk and that's what looked like was in the bag. So these tax-draining morons did not collect this evidence. Why would any reasonable person (let alone a so called professional) not collect either IV bag when the entire purpose of the search warrant was to collect evidence as to how excessive amounts of sodium might have been administered to the child. Even more disconcerting was the fact that they were willing to admit to such a clear case of incompetence on all their parts on National TV. I hope these idiots are now mopping floors instead of investigating murders.

Take one part arrogance, two parts stupidity, three parts promiscuity, a dash of overacting, a pinch of deplorable, stir and what do you get? Mixology. This glass is not even half empty, it is bone dry. Nowadays, with so much quality television programming coming from the cable stations, you would think that the networks, with their superior resources and availability, would overwhelm them with superior shows instead of aiming for the gutter as they have done here. One embarrassing cancellation after another, and none of the networks have learned a thing. I guess if you can't develop a hit show, you simply lower the requirement to be a hit show. Apparently, if 5 million people watch, it's a big hit now. Ten years ago, that would have been unthinkable.

Mixology now means, take a room full of empty-headed, 30-something, single, narcissistic, over-sexed, pea-brains; listen in as they degrade and demean everyone else, plot to bed anyone that will have them, talk inappropriately to others they don't know, and think the world revolves around their libido. Watching this show actually kills more brain cells than smoking a pack of cigarettes during the 30 minutes this rancid garbage airs. If it gets picked up for another season, I'm sure the network will have to attached a Surgeon General warning to it.

This junk belongs on BRAVO or TLC.

George Lucas' cliché-ridden scrips may work for science fiction but this story deserved much more. This movie is not only cartoonish, but belittles the very patriots it {I'm assuming) set out to honor. My favorite line from the movie occurred when a German pilot, who had been hit, was returning to his base. By radio he stated: "Achtung, may day." I never laughed so hard in my life. Close second: when the German Squadron leader referred to the red tails as rookies when they first appeared - much too obvious of a set up.

The acting was terrible. The writing even worse. Everyone in the movie just spoke in clichés. And, the scene to scene progression was like reading an obituary: only the good parts were included.

How can Hollywood justify spending millions of dollars on this crap? Do they really think they are doing these men service by hollywoodizing their story? The truth will enlighten Americans far longer than this schlock ever will.

I had high hopes for this series: A one season and out action thriller with a unique premise. But like a fireworks display that starts out loud, bright and dazzling, its has fizzled away to nothing. I like Tony Collette, but she has been terribly miscast here. She is wooden and too unemotional. Although you would expect a topnotch surgeon to be somewhat less emotional than most, her portrayal is a major distraction to the premise of the show. She seems to be taking that fact that her whole family has been taken "hostage" in stride. Since more than one family member has been taken hostage, why would the "terrorists" not sacrifice one to keep her in line (as they attempted with the nurse).

The final straw was when, after the children successfully made it to a bus station, where the doctor observed her children waiting for her (as part of an elaborate plan formulated by the doctor and her husband to get the children and her to safety), the good doctor was contacted via her cell phone and watched as the terrorists shot her husband, who, as part of the plan, voluntarily ran interference to help the others escape. Instead of gathering her children and leaving as planned, she left them a note to take the bus without her and she returned home to help her husband. Did she think they would give him a spa vacation for helping his family escape? Why would she ruin everything her husband went through to help his family and reintroduce them all to the danger they so desperately were trying to flee from? How can such a respected surgeon act in such a foolish, irresponsible, and stupid manner? This was definitely foreshadow of things to come. The family attempting to escape, and stupid decisions preventing that from happening (because, after all, the show is over if the family gets away). I was hoping the action and suspense of the hostage situation would unravel differently.

And lastly, the father is having an affair, the teenage son is a drug dealer, and the teenage daughter has become pregnant by her loser boyfriend. Are we suppose to connect with these hostage characters?