"Bionic Woman" (2007) TV series

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Better. Stronger. Faster.

Plot:

A reimagining of the popular 1970s TV series about a female athlete who is given bionic strength.

Plot Keywords:

Female Protagonist | Based On TV Series | Cyborg | Little Sister | Clandestine

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Michelle Ryan	...	Jaime Sommers (9 episodes, 2007)
Miguel Ferrer	...	Jonas Bledsoe (9 episodes, 2007)
Molly Price	...	Ruth Treadwell (9 episodes, 2007)
Lucy Hale	...	Becca Sommers (8 episodes, 2007)
Will Yun Lee	...	Jae Kim (7 episodes, 2007)
Kevin Rankin	...	Nathan (7 episodes, 2007)
Isaiah Washington	...	Antonio Pope (5 episodes, 2007)
Katee Sackhoff	...	Sarah Corvus (5 episodes, 2007)

Also Known As:

The Bionic Woman (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

NBC Universal Television

Trivia:

Michelle Ryan puts on an American accent for her role as Jaime Sommers. In Episode 5, "The Education of Jaime Sommers", however, she speaks in her natural English accent, a fact to which subtle references are made throughout the episode. When Jonas (Miguel Ferrer) tells Jaime she is to pose as an exchange student from Oxford, he asks her "How's your British accent?". When Nathan ('Kevin Rankin') is talking to Jaime over the radio and asks her why, when they are the only ones there, she is still speaking in a British accent, Jaime replies "Because I'm a method actor".

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "T4: (2009-09-06)" (2009)

Fails on its own terms and on almost every level

You don't have to go back to the original The Bionic Woman starring Lindsay Wagner to dislike the new and not improved at all Bionic Woman.

First of all, Michelle Ryan is just not ready for prime time. She may have been adequate to the super-low expectations of a soap opera, but here she fails to evoke any sort of humanity with her performance. She just prances around, mugging for the camera, trying to act cute. And she does even worse when she has anything dramatic to do: She then has a pained expression on her face that reminds one of a digestive problem.

The directing was equally atrocious, wallowing in the current trend of shaking the camera for no particular reason.

The writing was equally awful, making bad comic book dialog seem brilliant in comparison. The clear intent was to attract female audience by talking about girl power: the result was to annoy everyone with artificial, bad dialog.

And the special effects: well, let's just say that, as has been written elsewhere, the laws of physics don't apply to the SFX scenes. It's actually a common problem of CGI: the people making them are so disconnected from anything real that it looks again like a cartoon.

All this of course has to be laid at the feet of the show-runner, David Eick. He's the one who hired the bad actress, the bad writers, the bad director and the bad SFX people.

hopefully, this will be canceled quickly.