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The Listener (2009)
where is this heading to ?
I started to watch this show recently. To tell the truth, I didn't expect much. Initially I thought this is just another streamlined crime solving series by the super being, but it didn't turn out that way.
Instead I see someone exploring on an unique venture, with gift and 'real' life troubles. That interested me like reading a biographical novel. I kinda really like it. But the pace is really slow, I didn't hook up until episode 3.
Actually, later these homicide cases becomes a burden to me. I can't help wondering, why this PARAMEDIC only help victims of crimes. Why he must go to the police station for help in each and every episode.
Despite the stuffed crime scene, and the death of his cop friend, I think season 1 ends well.
Then comes the season 2 which is a full-blown under-the-cover different series. The figure is gradually shedding off his identity as a paramedic. The show is morphing into another per episode crime solving series.
Maybe its the way I appreciated this series had changed. The loopholes suddenly become glaring. I still remember the way the new actress's cat-walking in the passage of a hotel followed by his sneaky assistant in S2E1. Call me lack of humor. Though S1's plots have flows, anyway, Charles still acts like a cop. and this new cat-walking detective is so unbearably fake.
Sadly you have to bear with her, while watching through the second season. Her and her sneaky tech savvy assistant steal more exposure from Toby. And Toby is being detached from his paramedic life. His paramedic setting seems artificially stuffed in there. And the interaction with his friends from season 1 is nearly set to be redundant.
I haven't watch Season 3. I hope this show didn't morph into an CSI copycat work. If Toby lost his paramedic setting, and becomes the police's exclusive mind reading machine. I kinda lost his show. Screw it!