TV Show - Numbers

TV Show - Numbers

Score 7/10

Multiple directors. 
Country : USA
Language : English

Duration : 118 episodes (X 43 minutes each)  speard over 6 seasons



Numbers is a very different mystery show, revolving around Charlie, a mathematician, helping his brother's FBI team in their investigations, by crunching the variables as mathematical expression to find either the culprits, their homes, their next targets, and so on.

I like most of the humour (tho not all of it), and most of the characters are quite human,and they make mistakes. But, I do say there is a BUT : it's a bit difficult to believe that :

a) in many episodes, Charlie's life seems to be completely overtaken by helping the FBI and NSA in solving cases ; he's a know it all, or almost, in maths. Really ? Ok, I get it, he's a genious, but that much does seem to be too much.

 

b), sometimes Don, his brother and team leader in the FBI seems to get so stuck in some cases, that he doesn't seem to do anything to solve them, except for being a muscle man. OK, he's not a genious at maths, but the sheer number of cases he seems to be twidlling his thumbs is a bit odd, from a writing persepective.

Another gripe is the ''fbi'' screams as the team comes to arrest the baddies, or some cases where I would have opted differently than the team (and thus, I disagree with the writters)...

I like that not all cases are totally predictable,and that the pace is overall good.

I really like the uniqueness of each person in the main cast (which changes in second season), and especially the quirky Larry (Peter MacNicol)   ... 

 

and the super kickass Megan (Diane Farr)

 

As I have seen only 5 seasons thus far, I cannot yet note the show completely, so for the moment I rate it as 7 and will update once I finish watching and know how entertained I was overall. 
 
So far, quite well, appart for those remarks I have against.