The Equalizer

This is just not good television. The jump cuts are annoying, there is no believability in Queen Latifah being a seasoned fighter, and even for a network procedural, the writing is generic and over-the-top-hammy at best.

To be fair, my parents like this show for what it is, so I decided to watch the 1st episode with them. And yikes.

It has some likable people ( stand-outs being Tory Kittles and Adam Goldberg) but it just feels like a series trying to be something rather than actually being it.

There was only 1 Equaliser for tv drama. And it was the original. Edward Woodward. He was totally believable. Latifah is not. Denzel Washington in the movie was good. But sorry,Latifah doesnt cut it for the tv series. Go back and check the original series.

Queen Latifah is poorly cast in this role. She's just not believable as a skilled CIA agent. Also the writing is blah... absolutely zero nuance. You are directly told what pretty much every character's traits are.

The fight scenes are edited rather poorly as well. Jump cut after jump cut, it's not stylized it's just annoying.

It's unfortunate because the source material is quite strong, but, this attempt is very weak. Perhaps it'll get better after a few more episodes but the first two were bad enough that I'm not going to stick around to find out.

We've quite enjoyed it. It's nice to get a series that wraps up a storyline almost every episode. But there are some big red flags that mean it's a poor show tbh.

Firstly the main character can't hold a gun properly! It's hilarious. She'd last about 3 seconds as her arm flies back and she hurts her shoulder 😂🤷‍♂️

Then I'm not quite sure what's happened in season 4 but it has gone downhill fast! Ouch.

It's now very preachy and predictable. In one episode a random woman showed up in their holiday home hiding in their house. They didn't kick her out they decided to trust her and helped to solve her mother's munchausen syndrome by proxy! Honestly you couldn't make it up. So random so unbelievable. The Aunt and daughter stories used to be nice. Now they're annoying Nd very preachy. The writing is terrible.

A dscntshow is getting worse - such a shame.

I'm switching off.

I watched the 1st episode hoping to rekindle some of that magic from the 1985 TV series starring Edward Woodward. Everything about that series was stellar, including the electrifying theme music composed by ex-Police Stewart Copeland. Everything about this remake is the opposite. The plot's simplistic beyond credibility, the protagonist hardly finds herself in any life threatening situation, and because everything from point A to Z appears as contrived as a 10-piece jigsaw puzzle, there's no suspense to speak of. Sad. I had expected much more from this and from 'Clarice'. Thank goodness for WandaVision. My opinion is based on the first two episodes.