The Finder

Old-fashioned and a bit placid, but Stults and Duncan save the day, and maybe the series.

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.

The show may be able to relax into the kind of easy weekly entertainment you can find an hour earlier on Bones.

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.

Despite the strength of its parts, the whole feels very nascent and shaky.

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.

The premise might make sense if Stults had a Rain Man intensity. Instead he's laid back and scruffy. [6 Feb 2012, p.40]