Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Manthast Absolutely amazing

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

ioanaspam I was so happy to find a show which blends my two favorite past times: watching investigative shows and doing mathematics. There is so much potential to the idea, especially as mathematicians are CRUCIAL to national security and agencies such as the NSA and CIA/FBI for their analyses, especially involving cryptography, cyber crimes, and modeling and sim of terrorist/hostage/other dangerous situations.This show, however, makes a MOCKERY of mathematics, and thus gets a "1" from this reviewer. Basically some Hollywood director who clearly did not hire one mathematician for his staff to advise him, just makes up some random equations using as many variables and mathematical symbols as they can and peppers the show with cool sound effects as the equations float by in the background or are written on a chalkboard by the main character, usually shown in a stereotypical "genius" daze of not paying attention to anything but math.Other than the insult this show brings to all people who understand math, even more insulting is that it gives a sense of patently false understanding to those who never felt like they "got" math before. As for the acting, character development, etc, the premise of this show is so preposterous that for me, it overrides everything else. The actors may be good, the writing may be solid, but I can't even tell, I am too distracted by the mockery that is made out of my main passion and its misapplication.

magisterfabrum I do confess that my vote is a deliberately excessive one: 8 stars would have been more in accordance with my sincere opinion. As for the science present in the show, even I, a math dead loss, realize that often "crazy equations" (Don Epps, "Dirty Bomb", 1st season) are displayed, or that Professor Fleinhardt's character is too mystic even for a theoretical physicist, whereas he blunders once and again in basic points of physics and astronomy (in "And the Winner Is", 6th season, he speaks about a star called M170, when such a thing doesn't exist: M catalog includes 110 objects only, and none is a simple star). On the other hand, what's left to say about performance, direction, storyline ups and downs or production issues that hasn't been said in the preceding reviews? However, emotionally I love this show, and morally I welcome it in a time when a pseudoscience flood is drowning TV: "Ghost Whisperer", "Medium", "Supernatural", loads of "Stargates", the everlasting "X Files" threat... Ugh!

Norma J F Harrison too much 'music' background --drowns out the sense of the scenes, and covers up the dialog. I can't believe there is anything that says requires much input instead of trying to get short statements - reduced numbers of words and ideas. It makes no sense to me but in order to request ending the music background it seems I have to write a whole lot more than I intended. The music is overpowering the feel of the scenes and helping to let us know we're not math scholars so you don't expect us to understand the ideas being voiced, and that is helped by the excess of that really annoying music. I can't think of much more to say to explain what I see as a serious detraction from a quite enjoyable TV production.

neofita To cut the long story short: good idea of praising science in chase after crime completely spoiled by so-called "genius scientist(s)" that can infer, for instance, that it must be summer since sun is shining (it's exaggeration, of course, but it shows my point). It also adds some cops fitting into brainless muscles stereotype. Bad show, often unintentionally silly, almost always preposterous. The one and only bright side of the series is Rob Morrow, forever known as Dr Fleischman from old-school Northern Exposure series. Still, his brainless character doesn't fit him. At least, doesn't fit his former "doctor type". Maybe he should be the genius character and the script should be rewritten so that it had less "Gaussian distribution" along with other quasi-scientific babbling that is intended to cover scientific shallows of the show. "You may sit down, fail."