Every episode is like a series of insults to the country it is supposed to be taking place in. They obviously film only in LA and probably send some guy with a camera to each country to get a few outside shots or just buy stock footage. If anything in this series was true, no crimes would be solved anywhere unless the FBI was called in to straighten things out for local law enforcement.
shareI absolutely agree with you, it is series of insults to the country it is supposed to be taking place in. For example, I am Turkish and the episode where they went to Turkey, the whole episode was such a fail. People do not look like that in Turkey, or the culture or even the architectures. They should have done a major research before filming. It is really annoying to watch your own country represented as a different country all of a sudden and people really believe in that because of some series. I got very offended that they did not bother to do a throughout research. I am sure that in other episodes they have done it too. I understand that now because they have failed to represent my country as it is in reality.
shareWell he wrote the opening line for sure lol. It's going to be his new slogan for building the wall: "Millions of Americans leave the safety of our borders every year"
Definitely building on the white savior mentality that the US already has.
Actually, Bernie Sanders could have contributed. Seriously, check out his essay on how woman secretly want to get gang raped.
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No, I didn't think so.
Is your internet broken? It took me less than a minute to get you a link and I'm not even the one who posted the original comment about it.
http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-essay/
Here are the infamous highlights:
"A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.
"A woman enjoys intercourse with her man ? as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously.
"The man and woman get dressed up on Sunday ? and go to Church, or maybe to their 'revolutionary' political meeting.
"Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like 'Girl 12 raped by 14 men' sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?"
I like the show & actors even tho I would like a few more natives of country visiting. They do have consultants fr real US military & natives & if I felt like it was any thingredients like trump I wouldn't watch or tweeted to save show. There are numerous tv/movies set in U.S. that include crime but doesn't mean everyday all the time & every city/town AND yet to find one that represents my town or county So no a 1 hrs (abt 40 mins really) cannot represent every city or culture of country they visit. I can't possibly travel to every country in this show so I enjoy doing it virtually with this very enjoyable cast that appear fine to me even tho not supermodels that some posters here want (which would make it unrealistic anyway). ?
share"We will create a FBI unit to rescue Americans abroad from their own stupidity, and the world will pay for it!"
shareThe original series was pretty contemptuous of local law enforcement, too. It's a wonder any crimes get solved anywhere without a team of FBI specialists flown in.
At best, local law enforcement was portrayed in the original as well-meaning but clueless. Too often, they were portrayed as inept, bumbling, racist, and homophobic Neanderthals. Why should the international version be any different?
Good point. How bad does a law enforcement agency have to be to ignore an underage girl screaming in fear on the phone hours after she flies in to a country she's never been to before? How could it be ruled as domestic violence when there is no couple involved and the girl is under 18?
sharereminds me, while making me smile, of episode in the original where aaron hotchner just tells local alcoholic sheriff to stop drinking and so he does and all is well.
1st ep quote "it´s not their job to worry about missing Americans.. its our´s." ugghh.
and about leaving the safety of our borders thing.. u.s is #73 in safety index http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
#103 in global peace index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index#Global_Peace_Index_rankings
interestingly, united states and thailand has the exact same murder rate 3.9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country
As someone who is not American and of Asian descent I could only watch two episodes.
I feel that this show is only generated to Americans to keep them in America or white males to portray them as their law enforcement as superior compared to poor third world countries.
This show is crap. A bunch of lies and xenophobic propaganda.
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