Tracker (TV Series) Klamath Falls (2024) User Reviews

A rocky start to an interesting premise

[setheisenberg · 6/10 · 15 February 2024]

I always give the pilot episode more slack than subsequent episodes. After all, the writers are laying a foundation, providing (sometimes too much) back-story, working in plot angles that may or may not bear fruit in future episodes. And we the viewers, are trying to get a feel for the main character(s) and the supporting ones.

My cut-ott point (where I refuse to watch subsequent episodes) is a 6, which is the rating I gave this epiosde. There is potential here, although I'm not a fan of main character (yet) and am not impressed with the actor portraying him. It's a bit like Reacher only without the dry humor and massive physique. His back-story is interesting, if a bit weird, but it helps explain his current vocation. The rescues in the pilot seem a bit vanilla bland, and I'm not necessarily buying into the scene with the pickup truck and waterfall. But this is Hollywood.

Not sure why we needed to have the gay handler couple; perhaps it's just a requirement in 2024. So far that relationship has added little to the back-story but hey, maybe it will be a pivotal plot point in Ep 4. Who knows?

Will give this one more week and see where it goes.

Not Very Interesting

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 27 April 2024]

I have been a fan of Jefferey Deaver for a long time, although the Coulter Shaw books are my least favorite. This first offering was really like a thousand other shows with the strong silent type in the lead. Coulter is played by the guy who was Kevin on "This Is Us." I will grant the show a bit of patience because it is the pilot and they are alway rather stodgy. There is a backstory of his family, a brilliant nut case father who taught all the kids survival methods, died seemingly at the hands of the other, older son. A seed has been planted. The show will depend on good writing and sophisticated plots if it is to be more than a hundred other shows. The plot this time was a zonked out guy looking for money and kidnapping the son of the guy he killed.

Formulaic television

[lor_ · 16 February 2024]

Before the opening credits, handsome star Justin Hartley has already bared his chest (on a Zoom call no less) for the fans as "Tracker", a sort of sanitized bounty hunter, who earns posted rewards for hunting down missing persons, instead of folks wanted by the law. Not to worry -this pilot episode symmetrically ends with him bare-chested once more in bed with a girlfriend.

It's an enjoyable, suspenseful drama with action and lots of location footage plus likable cast regulars who help our hero. The only thing wrong is the writing by the numbers, carefully following time-tested (and overdone) cliches of broadcast television. This first episode is filled with back story, intro of supporting cast and the usual multiple storylines. The star's charisma is likely to carry the show if potential fans can be drawn away from grittier, more innovative programming being provided by the bushel basket on so many Streaming services.