- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 12, 2012
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Old-fashioned and a bit placid, but Stults and Duncan save the day, and maybe the series.
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Fans of quirky procedurals will likely find The Finder a dependable way to lose an hour.
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The series is low-key to a fault but likable, not so different from Bones in its sense of off-kilter humanistic humor, though never as graphic.
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With its mildly irascible lead and its extremely sturdy central premise, it evokes USA's better shows, right down to its blue skies and palm trees.
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The Finder is not sophisticated TV but it does have its charms, mostly stemming from star Geoff Stults.
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All in all, this is a light-hearted series that also looks as though it's going to be light-headed in terms of basic story construction.
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The show may be able to relax into the kind of easy weekly entertainment you can find an hour earlier on Bones.
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A lighthearted blend of action, drama and comedy.
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Once it gets past the cumbersome background exposition, The Finder begins to find its specific groove.
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There's potential here. If the characters can bond into an interesting dysfunctional family, The Finder could be worth finding.
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If the various kinks work themselves out, The Finder will at the least be a medium-strength entry in the increasingly crowded field of comedy-dramas featuring eccentric characters.
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The second half of the pilot improves over the first. So there's progress.
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Sounds promising, but the premiere falls flat.
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Despite the strength of its parts, the whole feels very nascent and shaky.
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There are a fair number of character quirks packed into that first hour, more, perhaps, than I remember from early episodes of "Bones," which built up its own quirky world a bit at a time.
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The show has promise, but the one thing it doesn't yet have that has made "Bones" such a survivor is chemistry.
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That backdrop [water and bikinis] hardly casts enough of a glow to offset the nondescript characters and premise in a series that isn't bad, necessarily, but simply ordinary in most every way--as if it were plucked, via time capsule, from 1984.
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The Finder is as agreeable as a contract on onion paper that says you, the viewer, will not question implausible moments or snicker when is limp and the acting staged.
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Everything seems hacky and incomplete.
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The premise might make sense if Stults had a Rain Man intensity. Instead he's laid back and scruffy. [6 Feb 2012, p.40]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 45
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Mixed: 7 out of 45
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Negative: 6 out of 45
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Mar 30, 2012
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Jan 13, 2012Not a bad pilot, gave it an 8 because I believe they will turn it around and turn it into a quirky, funny series (remeber nobosy love psych at first!)
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May 28, 2012