it's okay and trashy procedural. fun though. actors are bland, which is good. drama is hokey. tech is depressingly perfect, the sidekicks often have more personality than the leads. So, everything's on track for at least 1 full season, with the highly possible outcome of 3 seasons, a conspiracy, a flashback, and a presidential tie-in, if CBS has absolutely nothing going on in 2018-2020. The [premise] isn't creatively different from most procedurals, the story tries to jump on the idea that "throwing people at problems" makes them easier. Rather than just "throwing tech at problems" as seen in CSI, APB, Bones, and other forensic level shows. The concept is withering. If it ever gets mishandled, or they cheap out once too often, the show will devolve into exposition moments explaining the crime or the motive, or the technology involved, i.e. What Ice T ends up doing in Law and Order SVU for that show. until one of the writers notices and puts the exposition ball in someone else's hands for a while. The pseudo-narrative "computers make all things better" makes for compelling quick solves, but like APB, the idea of an app that links everyone via reporting of crimes, is super-cala-fragilistic-expialidocious levels of confabulation. I fully understand the reality of the show having to cut corners, but there's some pacing problems with the super-computer that can solve all problems. Namely, that it's able to solve all problems, that it makes no mistakes, and that it is kept as mary-sue invincible as possible. The way the show solves this is to 'trickle' out "new" features and on-the-fly features with no testing, with what looks like a million dollar factory refit, 40" tv's as monitors, and ~5 chairs for 50+ staff. I don't hate the show, it's actually within the realms of possibility versus something like CSI:Cyber. but it's still stupid. The writing isn't too bad, the recent 1x04 will be as dated as is watching Tek War in a year or two, looking at antifa/alt-right groups for "user bias" will not age well, much like Pagers and Flip Phones. Topical now, but it's absurd. the cliche drama elements are going to be new and exciting to people who've never watched Drama on TV before, i.e. the foibles of IP law, serial killers that confess in the last 2 minutes of the show, the painful revelation of a red herring via exposition and a CGI'd render, or a photograph leading to a new clue, rather than heading to a new location because there needs to be more banter between the duo.

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You get hooked and then you find out its cancelled yay!

No backorder. Show has been canceled after 13.episodes most likely due to Piven accusations.

I took this new series for a test drive this past week-end (binged episodes 1.1 to present 1.4) . I was interested in the hook - solutions guided solely by opinion (crowd sourcing). And I like the work of Richard T. Jones (though I am no fan of Jeremy Piven). It's long story is captivating, and as many police procedural it will have it's crime of the week. So far, so good, nothing outstanding. I give it a 7 (good) out of 10. [Crime Drama]. However, if you want a real treat on societies ruled entirely on crowd sourcing watch THE ORVILLE "Majority Rule" (1.7) or the darker BLACK MIRROR "Nosedive" (3.1).