Alert: Missing Persons Unit

FOX | Release Date: January 8, 2023

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descentformulaJan 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_AroundJan 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 characterI'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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