sdlitvin

I wanted very much to love this show. I'm mathematically inclined, and I was glad to see a show that tried to show young viewers how math could solve so many real-world problems.

Unfortunately, my enjoyment of the show was spoiled by several of its elements:

The "background" music is too persistent and way too loud, often drowning out the dialogue.

Diane Farr mumbles and slurs her lines, to the point that some of her lines are just incomprehensible. Combined with the overly loud music drowning out all the dialogue, this is a show I must watch with closed-captioning, so I can read what she's supposed to be saying.

The character relationships are just not interesting enough. How many times can we watch Charlie Eppes kvetching about his dad or arguing with his dad. Don Eppes, the FBI agent, is a more interesting character, suggesting that the writers have a better idea how to portray an FBI agent as a dimensional character than they do a mathematician.

And worst of all, some (but by no means all) of the "math breakthroughs" that Charlie Eppes is supposed to be making, are just exercises in logic that any good sleuth familiar with modern computer graphics and map displays could invent.