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verushka70Back when Blind Spot premiered (sheesh, 10 years ago?? iz old), I had seen all the previews and thought it looked like a potentially cool show. Then I watched the first episode. I turned it off and switched to something else after the first 20-30 minutes. I simply could not suspend disbelief for the premise of the show.
It was like a bad rip-off of La Femme Nikita (the first one) but with amnesia and cardboard characters. The shaky camera work, pseudo 'cinema verite', was annoying as fuck, and the high overhead drone shots were already overdone back then. I have no beef with the actors; they're all decent and doing their best with what they've been given, which isn't much. Marianne Jean-Baptiste's role is especially thankless.
But now that I fell hard for the Scott/Kip pairing of Heated Rivalry (especially Scott Hunter and his arc and the phenomenal job Arnaud did with a relatively small part in the series), I'm trying to watch Arnaud's entire filmography (which is not easy, because not a lot is available - almost none of his French/Quebec work of the last decade). Which includes S1 Blind Spot, on Netflix. So I've been watching it and...
jfc, it is as bad as I remember it being. It is LFN with amnesia, only less compelling. I literally FFWD through episodes for the Oscar (Francois Arnaud) parts. I just can't suspend disbelief enough for the unbelievable premise that the FBI would let an amnesiac loose cannon, who disappears for hours or days, "consult" with them, including on mission critical ops - repeatedly! simply because her tattoos are clues to international terrorist cells and some ginormous conspiracy.
The shaky action camera work gets on my nerves worse than it did the first time. The pointless violence and action tries to top itself from episode to episode the way that Criminal Minds' violent sicko serial killers get sicker and more twisted from episode to episode. And virtually every "international terrorist" from episode to episode is racist ethnic stereotype; one is even a homophobic one. And this is just S1. I just. I can't. It is so bad. I sincerely hope the other actors went on to bigger and better things, but I'm not sure this on their resume helped them do that. The only good things I can say about Blind Spot are the EDM that often shows up in the soundtrack is pretty good sometimes, and some of the actors have good chemistry. Neither of those is enough to redeem the show. The budget for it was clearly insane, which is sad - because so many better series could've used budgets like this, and used them way better than this dreck.
In short, do not watch Blind Spot. I mean, unless it's a drinking game or a "how bad could it be" dare.
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Date: 2026-03-12 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-12 05:16 pm (UTC)Thanks! I mean, if you're a completist for a member of the cast, go ahead & watch it, but... keep your finger near the FFWD button, is all I'm saying! :-)