I let him know the rating I was about to give in advance. This was his reaction. |
Warning: The following review does not contain any spoilers whatsoever because I don't want to waste my breath. Just kidding. It has some spoilers.
What the hell did I just watch? Did you ever not care about an episode of a television show so much, your brain wanders and you feel comatose? Well, that's exactly what happened when I watched this new entry of Almost Human, I felt like I wanted to inflict a serious amount of pain to the people responsible for coming up with this shoddy excuse of an episode. Was it that bad? Yes it was. There, I just answered my own question.
Alright, I'll tone it down a bit. Phew. Here we go. Dorian and Kennex send in Rudy Lom to demonstrate his "cooking" abilities to some criminals and gather intel via a wire, in which he conceals by ingesting a substance that makes him...pass gas...a few times in the episode. That's mighty funny, except for the fact that it's not at all. In the slightest.
The whole episode was just dull. Even the action sequences near the end between Dorian and the other android faltered due to its incredible cheesiness. While I commend them for trying to save the episode with a well-needed injection of action, this was a lame attempt at that.
I'm all for new ideas, and haven't given up on the show just yet, but this episode just seemed like a stereotypical episode of a cable-based cop show. There was nothing interesting. There was nothing innovative. There was nothing that I took away from the episode. Even the dynamic between Kennex and Dorian that thrived so much in the past episodes was seemingly non-existent here. That's a big no-no, considering I have said multiple times that they are the saving grace of the show and more than likely the sole reason viewers keep tuning in.
In retrospect, I would like to forget this episode entirely. I really have nothing much more to say. I could pick apart every piece of this episode, but that would just be a ridiculous rant. The last episode of the show was rather good, in fact, it was my favorite episode of the show thus far. I said the following at the end of last week's episode:
"Now that we are away from the first couple of episodes, the real question is whether or not the writers can provide consistently entertaining material and varied situations. If the show continues on in the same fashion as tonight's episode, I think it's in good hands."
Well, it didn't. And it's a damn shame. A couple more episodes like this, and I'll be sad. Sad by the fact that an abundance of potential was wasted on what could have been a great show.
Rating:
3/10
(3 out of 10)
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