Alert: Missing Persons Unit

Name: Alert: Missing Persons Unit
Genre: Drama
Released: January 8, 2023
Rating: 48

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FOX | Release Date: January 8, 2023

Summary: After the disappearance of Nikki's (Dania Ramirez) son she joins
Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Persons Unit where her ex-husband Jason Grant (Scott Caan) also works at the department in this procedural from John Eisendrath and Jamie Foxx.

Genre(s): Drama

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Kristen Baldwin

Jan 6, 2023

Season 1 Review: As Nikki, Ramirez offers a stalwart, no-nonsense balance to Jason's off-kilter energy, and she handles a showy stunt sequence in the premiere nicely. And Caan, reliably, is the everything bagel seasoning that keeps Alert from being just another bland lump of procedural dough. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Jan 9, 2023

Season 1 Review: Elements of this storyline in the first two episodes truly beggar belief, and a sense of boundless evil surrounding the comings and goings of the Philadelphia Police Department and of a single family come to overwhelm the story in moments. And yet Caan and Ramirez are pros, and sell the double experience both characters are having. Read full review

Rob Owen

Jan 5, 2023

Season 1 Review: In the premiere episode, a girl is kidnapped by terrorists. Nikki rescues the girl but only after risking her life by shooting the driver of a car the girl is in. It’s this sort of ridiculous storytelling, coupled with the uncredible recurring Keith storyline, that make “Alert” a series to avoid. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jan 17, 2023

Season 1 Review: A Frankensteined pilot. ... While there’s a lot to like about Alert: Missing Persons Unit, the generic cases of the week plus the logic leaps of some of the show’s storytelling lead us to believe that the show is going to contain more bad than good. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jan 9, 2023

Season 1 Review: It well might [entice viewers] as the ongoing mystery gets teased out, but thus far, this latest foray into hunting for missing persons isn’t particularly worth finding. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jan 9, 2023

Season 1 Review: The new drama isn’t offensive or necessarily outrageous in its badness. I’m not angry at it. It’s just inept, and were it not for the presence of Jamie Foxx as co-creator, I have a hard time imagining the show ever would have made it to air. Read full review

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Moviezman52

Mar 4, 2023

I am amazed that people say that there is no character development. From the first episode on, there is one explosive twist after another. Most of these twists occur at the end of the episodes, yes, but they hit you with a gut punch, each and every time.

With the theme of finding missingI am amazed that people say that there is no character development. From the first episode on, there is one explosive twist after another. Most of these twists occur at the end of the episodes, yes, but they hit you with a gut punch, each and every time.

With the theme of finding missing people (adults and children alike), the tail-end narrative connecting each episode is wonderfully executed. We need more scripted, narrative-driven series like these, and less reality show crap.… Expand

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descentformula

Jan 12, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show will be a flop. I normally really enjoy Scott Caan but in this show his character, Jason, seems to have been completely emasculated as a result of new wave feminism. The show starts out on a high note, with Jason helping to save a young woman while on a mission with the military. But then we time travel into the future where his wife is an ex and a boss and his son is still missing.

Dania Ramirez plays Nikki, yet another girlboss who is completely unlikable. It's no wonder Nikki and Jason got divorced after their son was abducted.

The way the writers set up the show's narrative makes it implausible from the get go. Divorced couple working together, engaged couple working together. Girl boss fighting bad guys in hand to hand combat, losing a child, and everything working out ok. Even the way they show people getting "alerts" on their cell phones is ridiculous.

Sadly, the pilot is the only part of this show that I'll be watching.… Expand

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Ben_Around

Jan 16, 2023

I'm always down for a procedural, so I've checked out the first three episodes of "Alert: Missing Persons" on Fox.

I enjoy most of the Law and Order and FBI franchises. They tell a straightforward story with minimal subplots or character development. They aren't very challenging and don'tI'm always down for a procedural, so I've checked out the first three episodes of "Alert: Missing Persons" on Fox.

I enjoy most of the Law and Order and FBI franchises. They tell a straightforward story with minimal subplots or character development. They aren't very challenging and don't require my full attention, but are entertaining enough. I really want to like it, but I don't think this new series, co-created by Jamie Foxx, is going to work for me.

The storytelling is too all over the place. There's a missing person of the week plot, but fighting for attention is a co-main plot (more than a subplot) regarding the missing son of two of the main characters, in addition to character bits and some attempts at levity that just don't land for me. They kind of jump around and intercut and disrupt the flow of one another.

There's no tension or drama around the search for the week's missing person because it's interrupted with a discussion between the ex-husband and ex-wife whose son is missing and the latest development in that case. Something needs to come to the forefront and something needs to be simmering in the background. I just don't feel that it's structured very well.

Maybe it's my inability to focus in my advancing years. Maybe it's brilliant and complex and I'm just not up to the task of following the narrative. But I don't think so. I'm not ready to give up but I'm not finding much to keep me hooked.… Expand

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  Air Date: January 8, 2023