Warning: Full spoilers from the episode follow.
While Limitless has had no shortage of paint-by-numbers procedural cases so far, the series has done a good job of giving them all solid emotional through lines. And despite this week's bomb threat being fairly typical, the toll it took on Brian kept the episode engaging throughout -- especially since it mirrored Brian's own turmoil over telling Rebecca the truth about her father.
Again, the RDD storyline wasn't the most original idea for an episode, and the threat it posed was never fully realized in a big way. As it happened, the "climax" was just a drop-off sting involving three people, with no actual "Weapon of Mass Disruption" endangering the city at any point. That said, Brian's humorous antics, cutaways and narration were all on-point this week. I particularly enjoyed his recall of Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, which turned out to be way less useful than he thought.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...
While Limitless has had no shortage of paint-by-numbers procedural cases so far, the series has done a good job of giving them all solid emotional through lines. And despite this week's bomb threat being fairly typical, the toll it took on Brian kept the episode engaging throughout -- especially since it mirrored Brian's own turmoil over telling Rebecca the truth about her father.
Again, the RDD storyline wasn't the most original idea for an episode, and the threat it posed was never fully realized in a big way. As it happened, the "climax" was just a drop-off sting involving three people, with no actual "Weapon of Mass Disruption" endangering the city at any point. That said, Brian's humorous antics, cutaways and narration were all on-point this week. I particularly enjoyed his recall of Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, which turned out to be way less useful than he thought.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...