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This is about the only thing on network TV this summer that has any shred of quality to it. STILL, I am getting SOOOOOO tired of the judges throwing all ideas of quality entertainment out the window as soon as someone starts crying/whining about how they are so bullied because they don't fit the mainstream definition of "normal." I just hope most of these undeserving acts get tossed during the judge cuts and we won't have suffer through their mediocrity during the live shows. Still think judge cuts should be a thing of the past, and America should decide who gets through to the live shows - we should also get to vote on who gets the golden buzzer. The judge choices for this distinction are also mostly wrong. Just have viewers push the golden buzzer on their app during the airing of each of the taped shows, then announce the act with the most golden votes at the beginning of the next show. Again, some of the acts are truly great and need to come back, but the so-called celebrity "judges" often have no clue who should stay and who should go. Just downgraded this again because the most recent show had no more quality than a high school level talent show and the judges and audience were both acting like everything was superb. So bad, and no guts to call things bad when deserved.

While I enjoyed watching the crews perform custom builds, the judging was horrendous. The cars getting most of the criticism during construction often ended up winning. Made no sense at all! Also, the countdown at the end of each episode was obviously contrived to build drama. That didn’t happen. Pretty lame, actually. In a summer of next to no good broadcast tv shows, this was mildly interesting, but missed the mark in so many ways. The ultimate winner had the worst design - according to the judges. I feel like the winner was selected by the head HW guy as this was the only toy he thought he could sell. I won’t buy it! The only decent car given to the finalists was the Firebird, The guy who got the VW was handicapped from the start. Hope this show either cleans up its format, or if not, it needs to go away.

The return to a largely episodic story track is greatly appreciated. Of course, the writers cannot help themselves and add serialized "character development" threads to the episodes which do taint the episodic slant. That being said, the push to put the "woke" story lines and "woke" character traits in SNW sour the overall feeling of the show. Yeah, even Roddenberry pushed the supposed utopia of the future in all his Star Treks, but when it is too pervasive and too preachy, it just doesn't play well. There is a fine line between helping a viewer "discover" an epiphany in a well crafted plot line, and just bludgeoning us with the obvious woke agendas. I want to like this show, and there is such a lack of good entertainment on network and in the streaming apps, I will likely watch it, but the flaws continue to irritate.

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Sorry to see this one go. It was the uneven quality of the writing that killed it! Sometimes it was brilliant. Other times, it was torture to watch. For me the end began when HODAD from the first season suddenly became a born again respectable doctor again. Tedious season long plot lines with the villain of the year became too much to bear even for this fan. Also didn’t like how female actors seemed destined to run from this production company. Makes one wonder why. Have a feeling this also played into the cancellation decision.

Mildly entertaining, but lacks depth and cannot sustain interest. Won’t miss it when it goes away.

Actually interesting for the occasional view. Since there is little variation in the show week to week, it gets old fast. Would like to see a show like this without the artificial time constraints. Putting contestants into a forced 16 hour work day is cruel by modern standards and would not be tolerated by any labor union. Such a long work period forces the errors the show's producers love to show. How about letting the contestants have one work week of 8 hours days to produce their final result? It would give the teams the time to build something truly spectacular and stop the nerd abuse.

Not great, but slightly better than the typical garbage it is up against. Bad predictable writing, lack of directing, poor acting performances are typical with this show. Only survives because it is slightly better than other offerings from Hollywood.

I watch this show only when nothing better is on. Interesting premise, but in practice a flawed format. There is no way for the contestants to figure out who can sing and who cannot. It is a pure guessing game through and through. If there were actual clues to follow other than just guessing it'd be at least a bit fair to the contestants. One can tell from the performances, the "bad" singers are coached to look credible during the lip-sync rounds and the good singers aren't. One can also tell, the bad singers are instructed to sing really bad, rather than just so-so (most people can at least carry a tune some of the time). The celebrity panel guesses are often worse than the contestants, so I don't really see why they are there. They confuse more than they help. Ken J as a host is irritating at best and the worst aspect of the show. So, when Hollywood is tired of Ken J getting yet another show to stroke his ego, I will not miss this farce.

This show is a mere shadow of what it used to be. It used to be genuinely funny along with dramatic. Rumor has it Mark Harmon wants to leave the show but CBS says they’ll cancel it without Gibbs. The story arc has Gibbs out of the picture and I think they are trying to sell us and the network with a replacement. Problem is, it’s not working. Hey CBS, since you are cancelling Bull, how about bringing back Tony Dinoso to lead the team??? (Interesting thought, but I doubt MW would bite.) Frankly the show’s first cast was their best cast and each replacement has inflicted irreparable harm to the franchise. Losing Kate, Tony, Ducky (but for brief cameos) were all bad, but the loss of Abby was catastrophic. As much as I liked the show in the past, I think CBS needs to pull the plug on the entire NCIS franchise. Let us remember them when they were actually good and fun to watch.

So Bull is heading to the slaughter house. Frankly I am amazed it's limited format lasted as long as it did. The writing was decent, considering the constraints of the premise. The acting and directing were mostly good, but a bit whiny at times. The overall lack of range in the premise was its problem for the entire run. How many ways can you get an unjustly accused defendant off? I think they tried most of them. Hope to see most of these actors in other projects soon. They did their best within the limited range the premise of the show allowed.

Mildly interesting during the action scenes. The rest is garbage. Past time to pull the plug on this turkey. It flamed out long ago and is ashes.

Like the scenery. The rest is ho-hum. Plot lines are predictable and the characters are basic recycled stock. I find myself caring little about the characters’ personal lives and relationships. Don’t need another couple of lesbians trying to find themselves. The single mom thing is nothing new, either. Unless we see some major improvements in the writing and plots, this show won’t be anything to remember after a few years. Probably time for all the NCIS shows to fade away. None are as good as the original used to be.

I like shows about space. I found the premise of this series unsettling. What if the Russians beat us to the moon? I found season one handled the premise better than I expected. The space race didn’t end and a few key details in history changed as a result. Some of the changes were entertaining but others reek of a wishlist of revisionist history. Having Teddy Kennedy avoid **** and run for President was laughable. Having John Lennon survive his shooting was interesting, but not relevant to the show’s plot. Season two extends into the Reagan years and that’s where I start having major problems with the revisionist timeline. The writers paint Reagan as a warmonger when he was anything but. He stood up for America but kept us out of the messes idiots like LBJ got us into. Since I like stories about space travel, I might continue with the series, but I hate the emphasis on sex, gay rights and inaccurate characterizations of past historical figures. Thank God the militarization of space did not rise to this level in real history. The world likely wouldn’t have survived. To sum up, season 1 was amusing, but season 2 became a mess and was difficult to endure. Hope season 3 has a better respect to history and the intelligence of the audience.

Foundation is very loosely based on the novels. Frankly I’d like it much better if it were more closely aligned to the books. The visuals are impressive as is most of the acting, but the scripts, character makeovers, and overall plot design is wanting. The revised plots are disjointed and hard to follow. The relationships they are trying to sell us are painful to endure. Having two of the main characters jump timelines with suspended animation tech is just too crude of a plot line when you are expecting us to suspend reality. Yes, I understand the original Foundation trilogy was written long ago and needed enhancements for a 21st century audience, but putting soap opera style relationships in a masterwork is cheesy drivel. I’m giving this a middle of the road rating for the visual spectacle, but the clumsy writing is an utter failure.

This show has always been its best when the plots focus on cutting edge medicine, not PC whining or soap opera plots. Perhaps there’s some good left in this show. If they focus mainly on the medicine. I’m not a homophobe, but the general population doesn’t have close to the ratio of gay to straight couples as portrayed on this show. Really getting tired of the in your face - we’re here, we’re ****, get used to it mind set of Shondaland. Really ruins the story flow. I frankly don’t want to see the public or private displays of affection by any gender orientation on this show. Again, this show only works when the plots are about cutting edge medicine and not the soap style garbage.

I’m sorry, but I started watching this show with great expectations of a quality show. Didn’t get any of that. If this is the type of excrement Apple + has in store for us, my subscription will not last long.

This is listed as a comedy. It’s not funny. Perhaps it’s trying to be absurd, but it’s missing that mark as well. Kept looking for a reason to keep watching. Didn’t find one. Understand why it was canceled.

The problem with this show revolves around the writers’ inability to write a script without one of the main characters breaking the rules. If this were a real hospital, the lawsuits would shut the place down. While a couple of the characters and a few of the short plot lines are acceptable, the majority of the characters and the story arcs suffer from poor writing. We deserve better than this. I will not be sad if NBC finally gets its collective heads removed from their backsides and drop this Turkey.

Pretentious garbage! Just the promos for this show turn me off and make me not want to waste my time with this @#$&%!

This revival is a big gamble. It tries to mix new characters with the old to get us distracted from the fact that this is actually a new CSI and not a full reboot of the show that lasted a lot longer than it should (the Ted Danson years were painful!) I am getting tired of the “frame up” David Hodges running plot and hope they resolve it and put it to bed soon. I haven’t decided whether or not I’d like the Grissom and Sara characters to stay on the show or not. Most of me says they’ve done their cameos and need to fade away and see if the new cast can carry this spinoff of the original CSI into a ratings win. Addendum: They did finally resolve the underlying frame David Hodges plot line, but it was done clumsily and hurried. We will see if the show can last without its gimmick plot twists.

Like last season, the best of this show are the Nigerians. The white characters are written stereotypical dumb as dirt. There is enough here to like to keep watching this show, although I cringe every time we have to suffer through the blatant stupidity the writers put in the mouths of the white actors. They deserve better than this. So does the audience.

This is one of the better night time cop shows currently playing. The recurring sub story lines are painful to endure as the heroes go out and solve the weekly dilemma. Lately the writers have their supporting characters softening their edges too much to "humanize them. It doesn't come off as authentic. We are supposed to believe these hard-nosed cops just woke up one day and decided they had to get all soft and likable. Not buying it. The edge is how they survive the day and the job. If this show's characters don't turn into mush, this show might continue to stay watchable.

This show remains a hot mess. It is such a disaster that I cannot look away though I want to … if there were not Grey's Anatomy crossovers in the plot I’d have left this mess two seasons ago. I hate most of the characters and the writers have given the actors so little to actually make us like them. The PC stories and social justice angles have been overplayed to the point where I just don’t care. Writers must be a bunch of crybabies, ‘cause that’s how their characters come across.

Everything is bad about this mess. Don’t like the cast, the contestants, or the premise. Worse than the supermarket tabloids! Waste of time.

it tried. It failed. While the situations are all too recognizable for those who actually have taught in an urban setting, this show misses the delicate balance of truth, satire, and comedy needed to make this a successful show. The stereotype characters and the acting were way too over the top. It became painful to watch after the first few minutes. Not planning to watch again.

Is Max leaving the hospital? Who knows? This season’s overall plot line has been painful to watch. I say either buy Max a plane ticket out of the country or fire him! Get it over with! After all the PC garbage he pulled last season I’d vote to can the idiot!

So you kill off one of your main characters and expect the audience to stay loyal? Haven’t read any news but it sounds like either yet another of the show’s strong female actors walked or contract negotiations went south. I find it somewhat ridiculous that HODAD (HANDS OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION) is now a character we are supposed to like and trust. So what is this? A show where female actors cannot function or one that really screws things up on purpose?

There is and isn’t something to like about this show. The quality of the music and the judging is all over the place— sometimes good, but as often very bad. The idea of putting a pleasant face on a vocal performance is quite old, the Irish used to have performers hide behind screens and had a person stand in front just to look pleasant for the audience. While I can see why some shows want us to judge the quality of the singing apart from the appearance, this is both good and bad. It’s good that singers who don’t have superstar looks get a shot to be heard, but aren’t the producers at the same time saying “your looks aren’t good enough — you’d never make it on your own without our tech!” What are these performers going to do when the avatar is gone? Will just this show change their careers forever? Don’t think so. Frankly I think this show reinforces the very biases it pretends to condemn.

Another mindless CBS comedy. This could have been a decent show except that it is too shallow and banal. Stereotypes abound which makes this show less than smart, less than interesting, and easy to tune out. When will Hollywood learn that smart writing is the key to the success of the classic sitcoms of the past. Unfortunately they keep dishing out this drivel.

Just like every other season, this show is best while doing the missions. Moving this show to P+ just saves me the bother of deciding whether or not to keep watching. It’s not enough to get me to cough up another streaming subscription each month, so don’t let the door hit you on the backside on your way out. I won’t be following.

The overhaul of the show’s premise (post transplant) is a rare and gutsy move by the producers and writers. There might be something here to nurture and it might grow into something better than what it was. Really like the big name older actors they are getting to sign on to the show. Jane Seymore, what a surprise.

Nothing to wonder about. Reboots are generally a bad idea as they hardly ever meet the expectations of the audience. Try an original idea next time… oh wait, Hollywood hasn’t had a good original idea for years. Reboots just admit their lack of originality at the outset.

Like other medical dramas, this show is best when it focuses on smart medicine and less on the soap opera personal tripe. In past seasons it seemed the supporting cast got way too much of the limelight. This is the Good Doctor and that is Shaun. Don’t forget, he’s the title character!

Still Rosanne without Rosanne! Like Garfield without Garfield it is missing a key element.

Even the promos for this show are bad! If you can’t get the audience to even want to watch it by selecting the supposedly best moments of the show for an ad, then it isn’t worth watching.

Dislike the host. His “style” grates on my nerves. The problem with this show compared to TMS, is that a lot of people can sing well, but in this show, most of the supposed dancers are not anywhere close to professional quality. It is painful to watch most contestants walk through a dance with the background dancers doing most of the actual dancing. The show needs a new host, better judges, and actual dancers as contestants. If there is not a total remake, the show will not be worth watching.

When the clues include both accurate and false information, this supposed game show became a farce to me. One has to figure out which talent has the MOST clues then ignore the false clues in order to succeed. Make the clues smarter and lose the false clues.

A game show based entirely on guessing. There is no way to intelligently figure out who the singers and the frogs are based on the information provided. The host is barely tolerable and I personally think the bad singers purposely fake being worse than they are. There’s nothing smart or of redeeming value in this show. It is a mildly interesting time filler and nothing more.

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Frequently smart and usually entertaining, the weakness of this show were the personal relationships in disarray. The season long story arcs of a super secret organization out to destroy the world got old. The one thing they didn’t do was stop Mac from building solutions on the fly. The original Mac seemed to do less of that as the show went on. Will miss it, but smart tv shows don’t seem to last on any network. We need to raise the IQ of the viewers, not dumb things down!

This show has been based on a single plot line from episode one. The premise of the show locks the writers into such a formula with only variations of characters and crimes available to them to vary the script every episode. This and the title character’s sizable ego can make this show tedious and often predictable. If the Bennie character becomes the DA, will he teach his ADA’s how to counter Bull’s courtroom tactics? Might make for a pleasant conflict for a few episodes, but hopefully not the new formula.

Different situation, but this is basically a redux of Leonard and Penny as in Big Bang. Not as bad as some. Still leaves a lot to be desired. Writing has a lot to be desired. The main characters are as superficial as the supporting characters.

There was some promise here, but it got too PC and too forced to keep us caring about this show and these characters. The plug was pulled before the show had any chance of redeeming itself..

The last thing we need this year is more panic and hype about COVID19. Notice none of the shows even give any hope about the medicines that have been proven to help. How about some entertainment that actually entertains, not thinly veiled propaganda! The soap opera quality this show has taken on recently weakens the premise of the title. Shaun is supposed to be a good doctor, not a barely functioning mess. The supporting characters are supposed to support the premise of the good doctor, and they are not able to carry this show with their barely believable subplots. Make this a smart and kick ass medical team, center the plots around the puzzles only Shaun can solve, and you might have something. Right now you are not living up to your potential.

Still too over the top soap operaish tripe. The slight redeeming quality are the fire scenes. Do a rescue show and stop focusing on the PC excrement. Most of the country are not racists or victims. We don’t want to see your warped view of morality shoved in our faces. Don’t understand why this is still on tv.

This show could have been something, but it’s obvious the writers don’t like the characters they are writing about and don’t lose an opportunity to bash them any chance they get. Pull the plug and retire this farce. Just read CBS is moving this show to P+ mid season next year. That won’t motivate me to buy yet another useless streaming service with mediocre content!

Was looking for something new and compelling to watch. Didn’t find it during the pilot episode, so dumped this turkey in the garbage and kicked it to the curb.

Disjointed and hard to follow with all the flashbacks. No one actually dies in this show. The live on and on in unlimited flashbacks. Basically lost interest in this show mid season 2 and brief glimpses at the later seasons gave me no reason to give it another shot.

I like the music, for the most part. The drama between the musical numbers needs work. I am beginning to tire of everyone’s baggage to the point I could care less about their supposed inner struggles.