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Mar 22, 2024
9
Look - it's not the best show ever nor does it try to be, but it is a really easy watch and you fall in love with the characters. I look forward to watching this every week. Season 1 especially had me glued (looking forward to seeing where they will take season 2)
Mar 4, 2023
9
I am amazed that people say that there is no character development. From the first episode on, there is one explosive twist after another. Most of these twists occur at the end of the episodes, yes, but they hit you with a gut punch, each and every time. With the theme of finding missing people (adults and children alike), the tail-end narrative connecting each episode is wonderfully executed. We need more scripted, narrative-driven series like these, and less reality show crap.
Jan 16, 2023
3
I'm always down for a procedural, so I've checked out the first three episodes of "Alert: Missing Persons" on Fox. I enjoy most of the Law and Order and FBI franchises. They tell a straightforward story with minimal subplots or character development. They aren't very challenging and don't require my full attention, but are entertaining enough. I really want to like it, but I don't think this new series, co-created by Jamie Foxx, is going to work for me. The storytelling is too all over the place. There's a missing person of the week plot, but fighting for attention is a co-main plot (more than a subplot) regarding the missing son of two of the main characters, in addition to character bits and some attempts at levity that just don't land for me. They kind of jump around and intercut and disrupt the flow of one another. There's no tension or drama around the search for the week's missing person because it's interrupted with a discussion between the ex-husband and ex-wife whose son is missing and the latest development in that case. Something needs to come to the forefront and something needs to be simmering in the background. I just don't feel that it's structured very well. Maybe it's my inability to focus in my advancing years. Maybe it's brilliant and complex and I'm just not up to the task of following the narrative. But I don't think so. I'm not ready to give up but I'm not finding much to keep me hooked.
