I was so looking forward to Criminal minds beyond borders because I'm a huge fan of the original series as well as Gary Sinise when he was in CSI NY. I also love the IT guy from back when he was in everybody hates Chris.
I watched the first two episodes that were in Thailand and India, and I noticed that classic stereotype views on foreign countries. Even though I've never been to India or Thailand, but I doubt that anyone would put a decaying body in an office! The story line in both episode was not that bad, but they lacked the depth of meticulous analysis found in the original Criminal Minds series. It seemed that they reached the psychological profile by luck after making a lot of mistakes first. I've said to myself though to give the series a second chance.
However, when I watched the episode in Egypt (which is my country btw), I've decided not to watch the show again. As an Egyptian, I was so offended by this episode because it was just full of inaccurate information. The majority of the conversation was about Egypt's conditions and not the case itself. The Egyptian military doesn't wonder around investigating crimes like that, it's mainly the police. The actual regime came after a popular revolution not a military coup. We are not that oppressed and poor in Egypt, we have problems like any country including the US nothing more. Not all Egyptians talk with an funny accent. Not all women are veiled. I don't know where they got this car at the crime scene, I've been living in Egypt and I've never seen one like this before. There is no desert in Cairo, only in Giza (another city), and there is no camel shop in the middle of nowhere. And last but not least, the gays are not oppressed, I used to work in a government agency with three gay colleagues with no discrimination against them.
So I've reached the conclusion that the show is not about solving crimes but about preventing Americans from traveling.
I watched the first two episodes that were in Thailand and India, and I noticed that classic stereotype views on foreign countries. Even though I've never been to India or Thailand, but I doubt that anyone would put a decaying body in an office! The story line in both episode was not that bad, but they lacked the depth of meticulous analysis found in the original Criminal Minds series. It seemed that they reached the psychological profile by luck after making a lot of mistakes first. I've said to myself though to give the series a second chance.
However, when I watched the episode in Egypt (which is my country btw), I've decided not to watch the show again. As an Egyptian, I was so offended by this episode because it was just full of inaccurate information. The majority of the conversation was about Egypt's conditions and not the case itself. The Egyptian military doesn't wonder around investigating crimes like that, it's mainly the police. The actual regime came after a popular revolution not a military coup. We are not that oppressed and poor in Egypt, we have problems like any country including the US nothing more. Not all Egyptians talk with an funny accent. Not all women are veiled. I don't know where they got this car at the crime scene, I've been living in Egypt and I've never seen one like this before. There is no desert in Cairo, only in Giza (another city), and there is no camel shop in the middle of nowhere. And last but not least, the gays are not oppressed, I used to work in a government agency with three gay colleagues with no discrimination against them.
So I've reached the conclusion that the show is not about solving crimes but about preventing Americans from traveling.