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What bothers you the most about this show?

posted 9 years ago by calebrobson
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What gets on your nerves the most?

To me:

- Make up. So we have smart people who also need to go through a lot of physical challenges and exercises to be a great 'agent' and then you have every girl looking like she just came to compete on America's next top model, full up make up all the freaking day. It's a small thing, but I'm still really bothered with that.

- Random stories, like Shelby sleeping with Caleb's father. Like wth? It's so stupid.

- Poorly developed characters, every problem they put up with these characters they just make it high schoolish. It's just so hard to take it seriously.

- Dialogue is terrible, again Gossip girl kind of thing.

- The expected unexpected twists. You know like when you watch a movies and it's been done that way for about 237856278 times and you just know the ending already? Same thing here. People that show nice side are actually not nice, people that are badass in the beginning show a soft side and so on...

I could literally go on till tomorrow. There is so many plot holes that I can't even count.

This show had potential to be something really good, if they just put a little bit more thinking in it.
I like the cast, probably the only good thing about the show, acting is more than decent but the storylines are just so lame.

Nothing against people liking it, I'm just putting it out there.

[–] jesse-blue 8 years ago

What bothers me the most is the level of sexualization, especially attributed to the female characters.

I get that the showrunners want their female roles to come off as successful, tough, self-determining and equal to males in any aspect. So far, so good.

What they actually do is picture them as sex-crazed beings who have nothing better to do than to sleep around whenever they feel the need. They are supposed to be professionals in law enforcement, not college girls. The Alex and Shelby characters are the perfect examples for how not to picture women. This really doesn't help in a social context where in reality, women have been fighting for equality for centuries.

Also, the female leads constantly turning their attention to some other male character makes them look like they'd be better of in some romance show like Grey's Anatomy.

Oh, and don't get me started on their looks. Looking ready to go to a dinner party after physical training or some miles of running through the forest doesn't help making the characters believable. And don't get me started on the constant changes in attitude within the lead characters. From tough as nails to crying like a bitch in less than 2 minutes? No problemo.

To be honest: Covert Affairs was a million times better as a spy show than this piece of crap ... who decides to put money into sinkholes like Quantico, anyway?

[–] iheartentertainment 8 years ago

@caleb: Rina's\Nimah's and Lydia's accent.

[–] bell-ann 8 years ago

I like the plot, but the acting is horrible. And I very much agree with the typical big network every actor is model perfect. Ugh! So tedious and boring to watch. But the storyline is pretty good. Why do tv execs always have to have the most beautiful people as main characters, why I love British tv so much more.

[–] Johnboy1221 8 years ago

Too many......far to many females in this one.