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This is one of those shows that everyone watched at least an episode of while they were zapping on their TV. I’m one of those people who didn’t immediately get into it, only having watched a couple episodes from the first seasons but never exactly having watched the whole show.

When I found it on Netflix, I decided to give it a try. The show is obviously good, but at some point, I was tired of it and stopped watching for a while (8 seasons in a row is just too much). When I started it back up, I was able to follow through and finish it, however, I didn’t have the same level of interest as before…

The puzzles are the best part of the show, of that I have no doubt. But I felt that it does lack something. In the beginning, I felt like we should get to know the team better, as actual people, their personal life, their tastes, their problems, their motivations, and doubts, but then… I didn’t like it when that actually started to happen.

I can’t explain why, if it was their stories, the way these were introduced to the audience, the situations that seemed a bit forced into the middle of random scenes… It turned out to be more boring than I had expected and the only reason I watched it was for the interesting medical cases.

The constant team changes, the constant “you are fired” and “you are not fired anymore” without any logic or reason, was just unnecessary and contrived. 

I think that generally speaking it is a pretty good show, however, over time, it loses some of its qualities.

The finale was another major problem from my point of view. The end might look very philosophical, but I found it illogical, a bit out of context and it ended up throwing me off what could’ve been better closure to the show.


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