The premise is a bit strange. Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) is a former CIA agent. He is contacted by Howard Hargrave his estranged father, who faked his own death and lives in hiding. Howard had created Halcyon, a private world investigative service that can carry guns anywhere in the world and can kill just about anyone. His wife Scotty (Famke Janssen) now runs the firm. Howard doesn't trust her and wants his son to work for and spy on his mother...and not tell her that he is the son she is searching for night and day. This works as a minor subplot throughout the episodes as they perform made-for-TV action episodes that bordered on being lame. Then in the final episodes the minor subplot becomes the main plot and the series goes limp.The main problem was that after watching the series, the character development was not that great. Let's make the fat guy (Adrian Martinez) the computer geek. It worked for Jurassic Park. Famke Janssen who I loved in so many roles, had trouble pulling off the caring mom and cold killer role. Solomon (Edi Gathegi) might as well been a killer android. I wish they had some more scenes of Tom at home so we could have gotten to know the main protagonist.Might work for some people. I will take a pass on season 2.

Take the most unpopular characters from the original series to make a spin off and guess what...it sucks...as expected! There are no "main characters" to like. The writing is terrible and even good actors can't make a good story. There is nothing here to want to see over and over again. There was no good concept to begin with so there is nothing worth developing...or watching! The only good thing about this spin off...it's gets these characters out of the original series.

I think it's wise to start by saying, that I love action and crime TV shows and when they are combined it makes a masterpiece like Banshee. But after watching the pilot of this show and when the end music hit in with the titled names, I really went over all, that I had just seen. A lot of people talking and that's the thing with Raymond, I mean he makes talking sound like a classical superior concert with no competition to worry about. Only problem is, that hes not here to do the talking. Spoilers!First a man almost gets kicked off an airplane! But then it's not even an airplane.A camera almost showing some beauty of a woman, but you see a hand and a leg. Okay this is not so important. Just a point to make. Why Almost show something? Was this suppose to be the comedy scene? Where you make fun of the fat guy behind the computer? Who did all and everything with a keyboard. I'd say sounds more like Chuck Norris.A bomb ticking! (That was just cut out of a woman with no problemos, who was the surgeon? OH MY GOD IS TOM GOING TO DIE WITH ALL THE REST OF THE LEADS!? I think not. No it's not going to blow. I know that. I was laughing. The OMG scene!Then a scene where Tom (the master of martial arts) sees some people through a glass door that are going to be a problem.How to take out these guys? Some kung fu? Silent knight (Batman) / ghost style / panther? Guns blazing! NO NO, No and no and no. By sucking the oxygen out of the room and raising an alarm by doing so. Who the hell came up with that? Why not just tranquilizer gun them and be silent about it then hide the bodies? In a closet or something? The action scene! With no action.This show is all about saving in the budget and shortcuts and that endless talking (without Raymond) and solving everything with a computer program.I bet they could wake up the ancient dinosaur back to life with their magical keyboard inside the table and screens. Where's the mouse? Okay not important.Who needs a detective? When there's a computer that can do anything and everything for you? LAPD and NYPD and the police of every country in the world should just get one of those. Let's do the impossible hack in a minute and brake in to the unbreakable building with a keyboard. I gave the show 2 points / stars cause I saw Elisabeth and Tom and for a moment I thought it was gonna be something worth my attention.This is really bad.After you play a lot of superior video games with magically good acting, graphics and stories to them and how well the action looks and how good it feels when you get to do it all by pressing buttons!Makes a show like this more pointless than a remote without a battery.. No without a TV.If you got absolutely nothing else to watch in the world then I guess you could watch this. Just my opinion.Nothing personal.

Not bad but not exceptional. At least not yet. I saw two episodes. There is potential if the writers fill in the plot holes. Like the instantaneous travel to far off places. The availability of floor plans for any structure in the world. Remotely connecting to and manipulating things that really have no connectivity.There is a similarity to the old Mission Impossible TV series in that the solutions are multi-level but without the clever twists so far.The action was fast paced on the two episodes. Everything will need to be more believable to raise this above all the other boring action series.The tone, pacing and writing are completely different from the Blacklist so other than the characters they have nothing in common.