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When I first saw the trailer for this, I was immediately sent back to 2012 when Fox had a show called, Alcatraz. The main similaritity is both shows have a female agent tasked to capturing a number of high profile criminals who escaped from prison. Both shows have a great cast and both shows have a scifi feel to them. And like Alcatraz, despite being a great show, Hunting Party will b cancelled after one season. It's hard to trust NBC with any new shows like this one because they don't give scifi shows q chance of grow. Shows like Endgame, The Event, Ordinary Joe, The Player, Emerald City, Mann And Machine and a host of other shows, all cancelled after one season. Hopefully this show will make it.

I would agree with the other raters on this one. We've all seen this formula before: a central character that some Government agency decides that they can't do without (and won't take "no" for an answer), and recruits her to carry out a "failure is not an option" mission. It's nicely set up for a "mission of the week" schedule which, to be honest, I really don't mind. I think the lead actress does a serviceable job, and the first episode had a nice twist in the end.

All in all, I'm going to continue watching this show. It has enough possibilities to keep me interested and the cast is engaging enough. Although if network history holds true, they'll cancel this series just after you've became a faithful viewer.

This is based on one episode so far, but it is already looking as if this series is going to degrade into a standard paint-by-numbers crime show. There was certainly nothing to hook you in and make you want to come back for more. If you're the sort of person who likes to watch shows while multi tasking and engaging on your mobile with social networking then is one of those shows that will suit you because there's no intricate plot details that you need to pay attention to. Miss a few minutes and go make a cup of coffee, you won't miss anything important. All in all it's gonna be a case of the week story, progressed on the thinnest of leads and solved just at the 40th minute with a random clue. Seen it all before.

Now yea we've seen this story line before buy I'm all for a good story line. They are looking for escaped serial killers. The worst kind so there is alot of action and seems to be a pretty good backstory for the lead detective. It doesn't drag on the first episode and you knee deep in the drama and action. The story keeps your attention and while we've seen this storyline a few different ways this is honestly pretty interesting. The acting is pretty good. Scenes are great. This is just the first episode so honestly it cld get way better who kws. I do like Melissa roxburgh there's just something about the way she plays a detective that really works for her.

Comes out of a barrel of clichés, in terms of uncreative ideas, and has insanely bad dialogue. The banal conversations - AGGHH! - the hackneyed and overused phraseology. It's impossible to take it seriously, and fairly annoying. Would anyone at all need to say out loud, "Call us if you find anything", when every person present is on the same investigative search team? Because, yeah, the lead was just gonna keep it all to herself and contact no one, D-D-DUUUHH!!

It's entirely conceptually immature, and utterly illogical, as well. One tiny Ex: The central character gets shot straight in the eyes with pepper spray (tear gas), but in the next scene her makeup is still perfect, no inflammation at all. I guess the EMTs do makeup now? (To be fair, she was holding a cold pack, but she was so casual, I thought it was a bag of chips at first. 😂)

It has poor directing and acting. The location-scouting and scene dressing is mostly fine, but it can occasionally appear low-budget. A kettle of boiling water is pouring out onto a floor and there's no steam, huh?

It location-hops frequently and senselessly. Seriously, who in law enforcement - what agency? - is getting to fly around in a luxury jet for the manhunt of one serial killer?

So, it took about 4 mins to figure out how lame this was going to be. It took another 25 until it became evident that the production was Canadian, and then I saw the Citytv logo, confirming it. Now the quality level makes more sense.

More and more often, when there's an early 7-or-above rating on here, it's most likely a true 3-5 stars affair.

Love the twistiness. Felt Silence of the Lambsy What a great setup for many exciting episodes. The characters are great and the way the episode reveals everything you need to know but you still get surprised. Its a beautiful thing. I can already tell its the type of show where everything has meaning and no detail is unimportant. It has everything I ask for in a show. Pomp and circumstance. This show really deserves better reviews. This is the very definition of well done. Definitely deserves some awards if they can keep up this level of storytelling. Grab some popcorm and gather round for an entertaining ride you wont be able to predict.

There's some nice CGI in the first five minutes of this new show. I won't even spoil the plot by elaborating. So, basically, this a fever dream of all previous inmate on the run dramas. There's usually a flawed but brilliant ex-cop dragged back into service, and there is one here.

Instead I'll point out the parts in the first two episodes which irritated me due to their idiocy.

1. An FBI agent enters a room and doesn't clear it before opening an animal cage. Nope.

2. An FBI agent lets an accessory to a crime roam around a house while they wander off to find the main bad guy. Nope

3. When you take a call, don't turn your back on the other person in the room. Or it makes you look stupid. And don't talk about the reason the person behind you is probably going to use to kill you. Double nope.

4. Don't have characters in your show that work for the CIA, but share all the secrets they know 5 minutes into the show because the other lead shouts at them. Nope-ity nope nope.

5. Don't have characters say that they are deliberately keeping secrets from the president. I'm pretty sure that anyone found doing this would be in deep rose fertilizer.

6. IF the US really had a place like the one in the show, they wouldn't need GTMO in Cuba.

Apart from that it was well written. Wasn't it? NOPE.

It is hard to first get into as it seems like a B movie and doesn't really pull you in. The concept is very good. The non-stop music playing throughout the movie, like an 80's movie, is very annoying and ruins the actual vibe that the show could give.

I like the actors. Not sure about the characters yet. The main lady is good enough to carry the show along. I still just can't get past the non-stop music playing at all times, and I mean at all times. I can't get into the scene as it doesn't seem real due to this music.

That is why movies and shows got away from the non-stop 'atmosphere' music throughout, as it doesn't allow it to feel real.

Like the canned laughter in sitcoms, why keep doing that? It is sooooo annoying.

After reading reviews I can only say this: Here in lies today's problems. First off it's entertainment people not "REAL" life.

Are you all so freaking dumb. It's not a reality show! And I even question them.

Just for fun , did you even know that there is no J. M. Webb base in Cheyenne, WY , it's made up for a show again entertainment only.

Why is it y'all want shows to be so believable?

As for the actors, I think they are doing well considering they are not your Hollywood elite A listers. I do believe writers are running out of stories and most shows are basically replays off old story lines, but agin it's only for entertainment.

There are so many things to say. So few good things. The acting is poor and the writing is nothing but rehashing from other shows. The FBI has a Luxery jet to fly to a potential victim while the convict can get there somehow. This may have been a Silo in Applebees TV's Silo not sure. Without giving to much info this has better get better quick because a lot of holes and not much makes sense right now. These are seasoned FBI people but she was kicked out for some reason and they let you know some weird stuff is being done by them for the good of mankind. We will see how it goes but a couple more episodes ought to do it.

Great show, hooked right away, so what of its similar to previous shows, you liked them right, they are gone now right? Now you have something new to binge! Watch it, you will be hooked too! Is there really anything new under the sun, every show before your comparing it to was a copy of another great show, this one is great, waiting for the next episodes and hoping it's renewed for another season because it could get real interesting given the opportunity! Love the main gal, know her from the netflixxx saga with the airplane, looking forward to the character development between her and the guard, what a cutie, anyway, watch it- not a waste of an hour or less!

This show is what is called "high concept". That isn't an indication of ingenious plotting or premise. What it means is that it's ultra simplistic. So simple that it's easy to sell, easy to write and easy to follow.

And, as is often the case with high concept fare, there is a massive amount of the suspension of disbelief required to digest this.

The pitch for this series is easy to dissect: just like The Black List, but from the good gal's perspective. A new supervillain every week.

An attractive female FBI profiler is the only person we can turn to in an effort to round up a bunch of terrible criminals who were held in super secret detention, and have escaped.

Didn't that happen to Superman?

And have we reached the ridiculous end of waif-like women being cast as the baddest warrior going? I hope so, because while actresses like Gina Carrano could pull that off, most can't.

The acting in this is also stiff and wooden, which often happens with actors performing in front of a green screen for the first time.

I wouldn't recommend watching this.

It's amazing that every time they "fly" off to a new destination, the aircraft they show is a Global 6000. But, when they are inside the plane, it's larger than a Boeing 757. Just how does that work?

Also, at the new destination, they magically have the same vehicle waiting for them. Not just a "loaner" from the local police department, but the same vehicle they had the previous location. Maybe the large SUV wouldn't fit on the Global 6000, but it would fit on a Boeing 757 with a loading ramp. I've just never heard of a Boeing 757 with a loading ramp.

I guess accuracy is not a priority in hollywierd.

The only thing that the show has going for it self is that the main actress is a little cute. The End, please skip if your brain works.

Questions: 1. Does the FBI only have one profiler?

2. Why is she working part-time at a casino? Is that even allowed or legal?

3. What's the point of keeping a prisoner in a security facility?

Facts: 1. FBI has approximately 37,000 employees 2. FBI agents are generally prohibited from part-time jobs, especially in casinos, to avoid conflicts of interest, maintain impartiality, and uphold the agency's integrity.

3. The U. S. government might keep a serial killer in a secret prison to safeguard sensitive information or prevent national security threats linked to their knowledge or connections.

Filled with unknown, unaccomplished, wooden actors, this is as lame as it gets. A cookie-cutter, rehashed story line, after one episode, you know exactly where it's going.

Some 5/10 blonde, who's dating a producer gets a job because he thinks she's hot and maybe can act. She's not only neither, but it's a crap story and even worse writing.

She barrels into situations, head-first, head-strong and not much going up in that head to show she's an actual, believable FBI agent.

This is a lame, CSI, offshoot, because in reality, profilers aren't kicking in doors and personally hunting serial killers. You're desk jockeys. There's a reason for that and in episode one, it shows.

Hard pass, don't waste your time.

Don't have anything positive to say. The actors "feel" it but the writing is awful. As most of these shows go these days, all the women are large and in charge and the men are barely functioning tools. Not that interesting or realistic. Think Secret Service chick who doesn't know what to do besides hide behind the person they are supposed to be protecting and you've nailed the main character. Thomas Harris must laugh every time one of these shows gets cancelled as this one will be. This show is bad may be an understatement. Not one redeeming moment. The lead is supposedly 32 and looks 40... they should really eat more saturated fat..

I try to keep an open mind for all new series. This one follows a well-trodden path. Finding a seriel killer before he kills again. For that to work the characters have to be interesting and the storyline needs to have at least a modicum of believability. This fails on both. I remember watching the lead actress Melissa Roxburgh in Manifest and feeling the same thing. She seems like a very nice person but acting is not her forte. She speaks with urgency but lacks conviction in her delivery. I don't know if any amount of acting classes can cure that. The pace and story is typical police procedural. Main character, Roxburgh, getting back in the fold but not quite sure if they want the job. They seemingly solve the mystery long before the show ends so you can see the plot twist coming a mile away. One bright spot on the show is Nick Wechsler who plays Oliver on the show. He's one of the best actors around. He's been in numerous series and played Jack Porter in 'Revenge' . There's a scene in that show where his dog passes away. He did such a realistic perfomance that the lead actress was even crying. She fed off of his energy and showed some real emotion for the first time in that show's history. There is always a chance this show could get better if they switch out writers for each episode since most of the actors are fairy talented except for the lead but I'm not holding my breath.

Traditionally, shows do not get this bad until later into the season when the writers struggle to find material. THP comes right out of the box with zero f##ks given.

Everything is predictable.

When you start at the bottom, there's no place left to go. Not even the mediocre looks of Melissa Roxburgh can carry this travesty.

I'm no government agent, but I'm fairly confident Quantico doesn't teach their agents to sprint blindly into an uncleared room to free a captive. Also confident it's not safe to fire a weapon inside a room full of natural gas.

This isn't even good background noise for when you're doing something else.

3 of the world's dumbest agents hunting down numbered bad guys running around the country in an airplane that's 3 times as big inside as it is outside, ridiculously lavish for even a corporate aircraft, never mind government, and apparently can fly anywhere in the U. S. in 20 minutes.

So far every bad guy they have found has escaped at least once through "the back door" of whichever property or building they are approaching.

The lead character has a "secret" that's not a secret.

Utterly ridiculous and an insult to the intelligence of anyone who watches it.

At least the acting is weak. This absolute turkey makes a Hallmark mystery look realistic, gritty and well produced.