Okay, so shouldn’t “full screen” actually mean full screen — and not, y’know, just most of the screen (and with very large, distracting advertisements on the rest of it, no less)? And wouldn’t it be nice if it stayed in full screen mode when it went to commercial, or at the very least switched back to it on its own?
So the online player leaves a lot to be desired, but how about the show? Meh. I found it pretty underwhelming, actually. I didn’t have quite the same reaction to it that Abigail Nussbaum did, but she’s not wrong about the lip service paid to female empowerment, even while that very empowerment is being cut off at the knees.
I think I’ll keep watching for now. A pilot, even one for a show not as notoriously troubled behind-the-scenes as this one, isn’t always the best judge of what’s to come. And I like both Michelle Ryan and Miguel Ferrer. But the show will need to work a lot harder than this to win me over.