After recently becoming convinced of the USA's ability to consistently produce excellent quality television, it is a delight to find another intelligent show that I can absorb myself in. Like discovering a new author with a huge back catalogue of top-class books to dive into, I now have the joy of renting the DVDs in sequence and getting a four hour session every weekend night until I'm up-to-date: hurrah! As is probably deducible from the above, I loved this show. It's everything good that the USA can do with drama: well written, well acted, high production values and clearly not targeted at the hard-of-thinking. If you like The West Wing or NYPD Blue or CSI, you will like this.
The basic premise that a genius-level mathematician comes to the aid of his FBI brother to apply his skills analyzing and helping to solve major crimes is a beguiling one. Rob Morrow leads a quality cast in making such concepts as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal both understandable and relevant to the job of catching the bad guys (the idea is that the act of observing a situation inevitably alters it in a way that cannot be quantified exactly, so suspects under surveillance will act very differently to how they will when unobserved). I look forward in real anticipation to getting stuck into watching this show.
The basic premise that a genius-level mathematician comes to the aid of his FBI brother to apply his skills analyzing and helping to solve major crimes is a beguiling one. Rob Morrow leads a quality cast in making such concepts as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal both understandable and relevant to the job of catching the bad guys (the idea is that the act of observing a situation inevitably alters it in a way that cannot be quantified exactly, so suspects under surveillance will act very differently to how they will when unobserved). I look forward in real anticipation to getting stuck into watching this show.
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