The Silence of the Cicadas

CBS | Air Date: July 14, 2015

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cylunJan 20, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "We did everything we could" after "Stop, she's dead!" after not even 1 minute of cardiac massage. This is how you can quickly get rid of a character but without any concern for realism and authenticity. Then, there is the question of how the body even comes from water to the shore or why someone drowns only a few meters distant from the shore where the plane is almost completely visible, where anyone could stand. It's just plot armor overall. Nobody cared about the details. But it makes the viewer very frustrated to see a character die without a reason, only because the writers thought it was necessary. "Stop, she's dead" is something you could say after 30 minutes of cardiac massage when no help arrives. From a storytelling standpoint, there isn't even a need to scrap a character in one scene. Make a cut, then come back to the same location later. After 30 minutes of cardiac massage, they would both be exhausted. This would be the right point to share thoughts about giving up.… Expand

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