Gone

GONE is a recent series about an FBI task force tasked with investigating cases of missing persons as soon as they occur.

Chris Noth, the ever-present Mr. Big from SEX AND THE CITY plays agent Frank Booth, a veteran who leads the unit and breaks paradigms by inviting her to be a beautiful young kidnap victim many years ago.

The idea is to have someone on the team who knows the subject from the side of the victim and who, after releasing by Booth himself, spent his life studying this type of case as self-defense.

The protagonist is the Texas actress Leven Rambin, seen in TRUE DETECTIVE 3 and HUNGER GAMES. She lives Kick Lannigan, still traumatized by the violence she suffered as a girl, but able to see clues and details that go unnoticed by other agents. Next to her is the great Danny Pino (from LAW AND ORDER S.V.U. and COLD CASE), a tense agent willing to solve cases as soon as possible.

The trio make up a fascinating team to be seen. Another point of interest is to see the diversity of cases that GONE brings to the screens. Screenwriters have to strive to create completely different cases to attract viewers. There are already twelve episodes of the first season, as there is still no news of a series renewal.

GONE is a great cop series with many new features in its genre.

GONE is a procedural thriller with terrific character development and backstory. The show is anchored by Kick Lannigan (Leven Rambin) who was abducted as a young girl, and Frank Booth (Chris Noth) the FBI agent who rescued her. This dynamic, and the abduction that still haunts Kick, give the show emotional depth. The pilot sets up the basic premise: Frank recruits Kick to join a small team of agents tasked with finding victims of abduction. The excellent writing distinguishes GONE from ordinary procedural, and the acting is superb. I watched the second episode and I was hooked. The limited series peaks in the middle of the season -- episode 6 entitled "Don't Go" is a stunner -- and by the end I was ready for GONE, Season Two.

Enjoyed the premise but disappointed in the acting of the female lead. How could she and her techie sidekick just up and go? What about her self defense pupils and where is the dog. Did the writers forget about that?

If you went into this expecting that Gone was going to recreate the wheel, clearly you're going to be disappointed. This is a standard procedural, and honestly, it's good! If you've enjoyed "Without a Trace," or "Law & Order," or "Criminal Minds," etc., you're going to enjoy this! It seems like the younger the audience, anymore, the less enjoyment they get out of this kind of TV. I get that. I still enjoy things like Teen Wolf (which had some sublime writing, and wonderful acting!), and The Originals (I always preferred that to The Vampire Diaries), too, so! I see the difference, and I see the appeal to both, it's just that procedurals are an old business.

I find Noth's "father figure" as the lead for this rag-tag bunch awesome. I've loved Noth since he was Mr. Big, so! You can't go wrong there. Where a few others have felt that the lead was over the top, I dare you to watch Blindspot or Quantico, or any of the hundreds of others with over-the-top leads! I don't find Kitt (or Kick) crazily out-of-control (she's still suffering from a mild PTSD, but unlike other dramas, the trauma of it doesn't just shut her down, and it's not something that's overplayed!). As a matter of fact, I think they sort of underplay it sometimes.

Regardless, another person had a problem with the hacker dude, and... I don't find him as cloying, but I can see the issue. It's the same thing as your Garcia's in Crim Minds (talk about an over-the-top character, though! She's lovable as heck!), or your Abby Sciuto's from NCIS! It's nothing that hasn't already been done, and it's important for plot dev, especially with such a skeleton crew. Seeing Danny Pino again (Law & Order: SVU) was a great surprise! He's so muted here, and I love that!

I know this show hasn't scored higher with other folks, but if you're a fan of any of the shows I've mentioned, just give it a try! I think you'll like it. =D

What happens if you put Mr Big together with a former Law & Order SVU / Cold Case detective and Glimmer from The Hunger Games? To be honest I thought nothing happens. The first trailer of Gone left me like "well ok another crime drama with borings characters, don't care" but after I watched the first two episodes, I was so caught up on this show.

First: Yes, it's a crime procedural, one case an episode and a "main story" in the background.

Second: Yes, it might be nothing new.

But: Don't judge this show too quickly. The pilot was solid, not brilliant or something. But the other episodes begin to build a really great story and we get to see a lot of interesting cases with well written plots and some plot twists.

But what really makes this show so great is the cast and the characters. Danny Pino as FBI Agent Bishop is so brilliant, I actually could have watched this show just for his acting. Leven Rambin does a really good work, too. Their characters Kick and Bishop are full of flaws and that's what makes them really catchy. And we can see the characters grow which I really like when watching a show.

All in all Gone is a really good crime show with a bit drama, a lot of secrets and mysteries, amazing actors and a lot of hope in every episode.