I wanted to like this new series. I like Jesse Metcalf, and setting it on Martha's Vineyard is different. It showed some promise with a halfway interesting story. But first off, I hate the female lead. Who names their kid Zee? And will we someday meet her brothers and sisters, A, B, C, D, and the other 24 letters of the alphabet? Minor thing, but it's a stupid name. If it's short for something, they didn't tell us what. Or I completely missed it.
Anyway, the bigger issue is that trying to shoehorn her into the movie is just ridiculous. She's allegedly a doctor, but she seems to have no actual patients outside the Jesse Metcalf character. We never see her dealing with any patients, and she is always available at the drop of the hat to run off to do something stupid.
I'll buy that she is the island's coroner because she spent a year or two working in a coroner's office. That's fine. But apparently she is not only capable of doing an autopsy, but she is a forensic expert as well. Because I guess they needed someone and why not her, even though it doesn't make any sense.
But I guess the writers needed a damsel in distress, so she trips along after Jesse, and they do dumb things so that she needs to be rescued by him. They go down to the wharf because this lady saw someone on the dead man's boat, and Jesse sends the dumb doctor to wait on the dead man's boat while he goes looking for the woman who called him. And naturally the suspect is still on the boat and attacks the silly doc. And then later on towards the end she once again needs to be rescued. But she never really seems to add anything to the investigation. She doesn't come up with any clever insights or anything. She's just there, wearing ridiculous shoes both for a doctor and for running around an investigation.
Anyway, in the end it was more annoying than really intriguing. I'm still trying to decide if it's worth giving it one more shot to see if it gets better.
Anyway, the bigger issue is that trying to shoehorn her into the movie is just ridiculous. She's allegedly a doctor, but she seems to have no actual patients outside the Jesse Metcalf character. We never see her dealing with any patients, and she is always available at the drop of the hat to run off to do something stupid.
I'll buy that she is the island's coroner because she spent a year or two working in a coroner's office. That's fine. But apparently she is not only capable of doing an autopsy, but she is a forensic expert as well. Because I guess they needed someone and why not her, even though it doesn't make any sense.
But I guess the writers needed a damsel in distress, so she trips along after Jesse, and they do dumb things so that she needs to be rescued by him. They go down to the wharf because this lady saw someone on the dead man's boat, and Jesse sends the dumb doctor to wait on the dead man's boat while he goes looking for the woman who called him. And naturally the suspect is still on the boat and attacks the silly doc. And then later on towards the end she once again needs to be rescued. But she never really seems to add anything to the investigation. She doesn't come up with any clever insights or anything. She's just there, wearing ridiculous shoes both for a doctor and for running around an investigation.
Anyway, in the end it was more annoying than really intriguing. I'm still trying to decide if it's worth giving it one more shot to see if it gets better.