FBI

Not a bad series, started well with a reasonably strong pilot but dipped a little with the nuclear reactor story, quite boring. Characters are a little wooden and need a little more body, like interesting back stories and personal lives. With that in mind, the potential is there for an interesting series, but Jeremy Sisto has to stop shouting all the time, it comes across as very amateur and it's extremely annoying.

The music is so loud you can't hear much of the script. Why do you need that elevator music.

In its prime I appreciated how it shifted focus from the case at hand per se to the personal implications with the main cast, but I really can't get past how formulaic it has become in time. We have the 1 minute cold open with people chatting idly and then becoming the receiving end or the witnesses of a crime, someone cries "heeeelp! Oh my God please someone help me!", cut to the title card on black, then we get a slice of life of one of the main cast, with some deep problem with friends/family/partner etc., they receive the call, briefing at the bureau, then at the scene, some red herrings, people called out from the other side of the road start running away and of course they are not the culprit, cut to Maggie frowning and Omar mugging with a pouty face, then one of the cast has to do something morally questionable to crack the case, then showdown. The episode ends with the episode protagonist facing the moral consequences of their action, then sitting on their chair staring at the distance with the somber ending music, then cut to credits on a black screen.

The whole thing seriously makes me wonder what's the point of screenwriting and if they film some scenes (like the ending ones with the contemplating protagonist) in bulk and then edit them for each single episode.

This is getting really boring.

Every. Single. Episode. Someone yells, FBI, we just want to ask some questions- and ooooffff goes the guy, here comes the standard hunt shuffle and catch. Every episode!

Then, I actually like the characters a lot, but why is Jeremy Sisto screaming like a lower school football coach every time there is a case? As if he doesnt have a team of really good people around him knowing what to do.

After 4 seasons, we are giving up on this show soon, really no season 5 needed, thank you very much!

I really liked Missy Peregrym in her previous telvision crime/drama series (2010/2015) Rookie Blue, and there certainly is some decent on-screen chemistry with her current co-star Zeeko Zaki who recently appeared in the military/drama TV series (2017) Six. If this new TV series FBI is to not only survive but in fact thrive, the writers need to be a heck of a lot more creative with the storylines than just bring us one hour episodes about ISIS related criminals who simply just get shot dead by FBI agents in an effort to end the episode.

I have to ask myself where are the writers who created the fantastic and in-depth storylines of the hit crime series The Wire, and/or Major Crimes? Bring back these great TV crime series and please STOP generating shallow and boring shoot em up crime series that rely more on irritating suspenseful music scores in an attempt to keep our attention. It simply just won't work.

I give FBI an encouraging 5 out of 10 rating in an effort to influence the producers to hire some more creative writers, otherwise this series will die faster than their next ISIS storyline.