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It’s hard to explain why it all works, except it does.
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They [the Scorpion team] may be absurd, but they're enjoyable as long as you don't think about them too deeply. (Or, in the case of a final stunt with a car and an airplane, at all.)
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All in all--the action will draw viewers in and the loveable characters will keep them for the long haul.
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It's a dumb pilot directed by "Fast & Furious" franchise caretaker Justin Lin, which means there are multiple car chases that kick ass, including one near the end that's as fun as it is completely ridiculous.
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Scorpion has a really cool and grabby pilot that moves at a jolting, jackrabbit pace. But the episode has the unmistakable aura of a magic trick.
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Eddie Kaye Thomas is fun as the occasionally felonious brainiac psychologist, but the rest of the characters are pretty one-dimensional, that one dimension being their social awkwardness.
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A very good idea but executed in the pilot with too much sap and manipulation.
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[A] derivative but diverting caper.
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For all the characters’ feeble development, though, Scorpion doesn’t drag. And Lin’s action sequences at the end look great as well as ludicrous.
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The participants in this mildy fun yet wholly disposable exercise would be wise not to dwell on calculating their chances of network survival.
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The show isn’t terribly believable.... The cast is fine, except for McPhee.
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It’s a well-paced diversion after a long Monday night.
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It’s just another case-of-the-week procedural, and McPhee seems out of place.
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Given the times, TV is overdue for a clever hacker thriller. This is not it. [19/26 Sep 2014, p.127]
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The plot is slight, the resolution a laugher and the characters basically stick figures. Scorpion has its fun moments, but not enough of them.
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There’s considerable techno-talk in the premiere episode, with little of it making much sense.
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Old-fashioned acting is too often replaced by the never-exciting sight of someone poking urgently at a computer. Scorpion tries to compensate for this with a high-adrenaline pace, but that can lead to its own kind of weariness.
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If Scorpion were better suited to today’s TV landscape instead of bringing to mind a TV series from 30 years ago, it could be an of-the-moment series worth watching. But it’s not.
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Well, this is a pile of nonsense, but at least it's more or less inoffensive nonsense.
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The addition of a misunderstood, brilliant kid belonging to a diner waitress unconvincingly played by Katharine McPhee doesn’t help.
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Scorpion feels like a world cut down to types.
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Scorpion tries to get action-heavy in its final act, with the brain trust preventing an aviation disaster at LAX, and for a brief interlude, the show has a glimmer of momentum--but it's undercut by how ludicrous the whole setup is, how unnatural the dialogue is, and how impossible it feels to care what happens to any of these people.
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The brainy nerds are a stereotypical band of socially awkward types. Not helping lighten the cliché load is Katharine McPhee as the mother of a boy who's also a budding tech prodigy.
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It’s a show about geniuses that gets stupider and stupider until it explodes.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 144 out of 268
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Mixed: 38 out of 268
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Negative: 86 out of 268
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Sep 22, 2014
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Sep 23, 2014
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Oct 3, 2014This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.