Avery investigates a string of infant abductions linked to an auction site hidden in the web.Avery investigates a string of infant abductions linked to an auction site hidden in the web.Avery investigates a string of infant abductions linked to an auction site hidden in the web.
Jeffrey G. Barnett
- Male Kidnapper
- (as Jeff Barnett)
Rustom K. Shahi
- System Administrator
- (as Rustom Cyrus)
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- TriviaKenneth Mitchell and Susan May Pratt play a married couple on the show, in real life they actually are married.
- GoofsAvery, in Baltimore, MD, responds to the kidnappers ultimatum, and somehow she and the team are in Paterson, NJ (roughly 200 miles away) 30 minutes later to be in on the take-down.
- Quotes
Simon Sifter: It's early, Ryan! My wife thinks I'm sneaking out of bed to have an affair
Avery Ryan: No, she doesn't
Simon Sifter: I sense an insult in there somewhere!
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A collection of clichés served by third rate actors
I can find only one explanation for this extremely bad first episode of a new franchise. Their creators, despite having made tens, and more probably hundreds of millions with CSI, still want more money by milking an audience with a product they know is subpar.
The episode is a collection of idiotic clichés. Source code in green. Vibrating screen every few minutes, the equivalent of Michael Bay's lens flare over-abuse. The FBI analyst that discovers security vulnerabilities in cam software in minutes, because it's that easy. Same security analyst is directly connecting his laptop to a server in a data-center full of racks because that's of course the easiest way to read source code. I could go on and on, let's just say no cheap trick was spared to dazzle a non-specialist audience.
All this played by third rate actors who do not seem to believe or understand what they say, worse of all Patricia Arquette, as believable in the role of a cyber task-force commander and George W. Bush in a protest against Guantanamo. Her monotonous, inarticulate diction would put anyone to sleep.
The base problem with cyber is that it isn't sexy, it's quite hard to depict in an interesting but truthful way to an audience. It's a world heavily dominated by men, with lots of source code and hard maths. Granted, social hacking isn't to be underestimated. Still, this isn't a world filled with special effects or where believe it or not in which people conduct a Skype conversation on 400 square meters of computer screens just for the fun of it.
There are plenty of great crime series on television now. Bosch. Fortitude. True detective. Don't waste your time with CSI: Cyber.
The episode is a collection of idiotic clichés. Source code in green. Vibrating screen every few minutes, the equivalent of Michael Bay's lens flare over-abuse. The FBI analyst that discovers security vulnerabilities in cam software in minutes, because it's that easy. Same security analyst is directly connecting his laptop to a server in a data-center full of racks because that's of course the easiest way to read source code. I could go on and on, let's just say no cheap trick was spared to dazzle a non-specialist audience.
All this played by third rate actors who do not seem to believe or understand what they say, worse of all Patricia Arquette, as believable in the role of a cyber task-force commander and George W. Bush in a protest against Guantanamo. Her monotonous, inarticulate diction would put anyone to sleep.
The base problem with cyber is that it isn't sexy, it's quite hard to depict in an interesting but truthful way to an audience. It's a world heavily dominated by men, with lots of source code and hard maths. Granted, social hacking isn't to be underestimated. Still, this isn't a world filled with special effects or where believe it or not in which people conduct a Skype conversation on 400 square meters of computer screens just for the fun of it.
There are plenty of great crime series on television now. Bosch. Fortitude. True detective. Don't waste your time with CSI: Cyber.
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- Mar 9, 2015
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