Like everyone else I was looking forward to this quite a bit. I like Cliff Curtis (fantastic in "Training Day." And Anastasia Griffith was okay in "Damages.") Imagine, well, you don't have to, my disappointment when this drek appeared and unfurled in front of us. Appalling.
Good luck getting to the hospital if the characters from this misfiring 3-episode-and-out boatload of triteness have anything to say about it -- they're too busy screwing in the back of the ambulance or drinking on the job. What's meant to be hip, daring, and oh, so real is merely lame, familiar and fake.
Even down to the way the characters are handled visually this was doomed -- the introduction of Cliff Curtis with this loving hero dolly shot was a harbinger of doom. No way this character lives up to the way he's photographed. And guess what -- he knows his stuff and saves that guy's life -- and then gets knocked out of the sky. What a stunning turnaround. I haven't seen plot twists like that since "Sheep in the Big City," which is supremely better written, acted and thought out.
I'm not going to ramble on about this. The positive comments are clearly written by shills, friends of the producers who've been sought out to write pleasant things. Too bad the comments' writers aren't doing the teleplays. They're equally as inventive.
Good luck getting to the hospital if the characters from this misfiring 3-episode-and-out boatload of triteness have anything to say about it -- they're too busy screwing in the back of the ambulance or drinking on the job. What's meant to be hip, daring, and oh, so real is merely lame, familiar and fake.
Even down to the way the characters are handled visually this was doomed -- the introduction of Cliff Curtis with this loving hero dolly shot was a harbinger of doom. No way this character lives up to the way he's photographed. And guess what -- he knows his stuff and saves that guy's life -- and then gets knocked out of the sky. What a stunning turnaround. I haven't seen plot twists like that since "Sheep in the Big City," which is supremely better written, acted and thought out.
I'm not going to ramble on about this. The positive comments are clearly written by shills, friends of the producers who've been sought out to write pleasant things. Too bad the comments' writers aren't doing the teleplays. They're equally as inventive.