MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
Given that we’re in the thick of the holiday season, shouldn’t everyone by settling down to enjoy some holiday traditions and some time with loved ones? You’d think that; however, that doesn’t always turn out to be the case — and you can absolutely say that when it comes to Friday night’s new episode of […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
What a run we’re on at the moment when it comes to “MacGyver” on CBS! The introduction of Murdoc on the show last week proved to be enormously action-packed and interesting, and we’re glad to say that the ninth episode on Friday once again proved to be the case. Before we get into the action […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
We didn’t love the pilot for “MacGyver” — let’s go ahead and get that out of the way right now. This was a show that started off struggling to figure out how much action it wanted to have in relationship to humor, and we even wondered whether or not this Mac was old enough to […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
When we first heard via CBS that Friday night’s new episode of “MacGyver” was going to feature the title hero behind bars, results were mixed. Let’s start with the negative: Why tread on this ground again? Every single crime / action show under the sun does an episode where the main character goes undercover behind […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
If there’s been a defining issue for the “MacGyver” remake on CBS so far, it is the lack of compelling villains. We’ve got Nikki, sure, but beyond that we’ve been floating to a certain extent in a sea of ambiguity with characters we don’t quite care about serving as chief adversaries. Through much of Friday’s […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
What is it these days with primetime network shows having huge action set pieces revolving around trains these days? It was only a few weeks ago that we saw “The Blacklist” utilize a mysterious train route for a storyline, and on Friday night’s “MacGyver” episode, we got a chance to see what they could bring […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
If your idea of fun “MacGyver” is watching older, Russian versions of Mac and Jack fighting with each other, then we’ve got the episode for you! Friday night’s new episode for the most part was themed around our two heroes pairing up with two others, and mass bickering (with the occasional pulling-something-out-of-nothing you’ve come to […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
For those of you out there who wanted to see a side of “MacGyver” that was a tad more folksy and low-budget, there is a part of Friday night’s new episode that certainly delivered the goods there. We had impromptu surgeries, a touch of “Smokey and the Bandit,” and a little bit of “Chuck” since we […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
After the first episode of “MacGyver,” our sentiment was that this was a show that tried, and mostly failed, to replicate the charm of the original. Ultimately, it felt like a series straddling the line between being an homage and a CBS procedural-by-numbers. With the second episode on Friday night, we started to get more […]
MacGyver, MacGyver season 1 review
Remakes are something network TV knows rather well. We’ve got shows out there like “Hawaii Five-0” and “Lethal Weapon,” and “MacGyver” is trying to roughly do the same thing: Tell a story that is familiar enough to appeal to fans of the original, while at the same time appeal to a younger, hipper generation that […]
