Deception (2018) [Serial Review]


Created by: Chris Fedak
Starring: Jack Cutmore-Scott, Ilfenesh Hadera, Lenora Crichlow, Justin Chon, Laila Robins, Amaury Nolasco and Vinnie Jones
Dur: 43 mins each episode (13 episodes)
Genre: Crime-drama
Rating: 4/10


My cousin created quite an interest in me to watch ‘Deception’. He spoke so highly of it that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. Guess what? The whole “it’s awesome” thing – that’s a ‘deception’. The plot is all-too-familiar: The FBI become associated with a person with ‘special skills’ who serves as an ‘consultant’ but who later goes to become much more. I get it that they tried to make this cop-drama interesting by bringing magic into the fray but that really didn’t help much. The series is quite a let down and the only reason I got through all of it was because I was hoping that its initial aridity was a deception and that the oasis was around the corner, but sadly I was mistaken and I felt parched by the end.

The drama was seriously lacking and left a bad taste in the mouth. It wasn’t all bad though; there were few moments that seemed worthwhile. The acting was bearable, the plot wasn’t. It brought back memories of Castle - a show that was really good, something I can't say about this one! When the villain is called the ‘mystery woman’, you know something is not right! They even got it down to ‘MW’ to make it sound cool and secretive – guess what writers, we aren’t stupid! Sad to say, magic was de-mystified to a certain extent and the FBI were shown in slightly negative light. The production lacked the quality to make it great, perhaps that’s why they were cancelled after just one season.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Great Grand Masti 2 (2016) (Movie Review)

Image
Dir: Indra Kumar Starring: Vivek Oberoi, Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela Dur: 2 hrs 10 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: 1/10 Comment: The jokes, gestures and costumes are sexually suggestive. An absolute waste of time. “What an opening line”, you might think. But to say otherwise would be an absolute lie. This film is in fact, a great grand waste of time. It’s horrible whichever way you look at it. The story is weak and thrives on cheap thrills and sorry jokes. The actresses are no doubt eye-catching but the rest is all a blur. The comedy is in fact tragedy and the film attempts to play on the basest desires of man. It’s unbelievable that actors like Riteish and Vivek would do such a film. I am not a big fan of bollywood but I still feel bad when I see bollywood making films like these. All of a sudden, I see that sex is being propagated through Indian cinema. The views of sex are changing and filmmakers and actors are not hesitating to take on unconvent...
Read more

A Day with Don Bosco

                              Don Bosco was declared the Patron of Youth by Pope John Paul II in 1989. He received his mission: to be Father to the young, in a dream at the tender age of nine. He nurtured this call throughout his life and never wasted an opportunity to gather boys and direct them to God. He did not do this as a spiritual director, (at least no at first!) but rather as a friend, a companion and a seminarian. As a young boy, he would attract youngsters with his magic tricks, tightrope skills, games etc and then get them to recite the rosary with him or recount to them the Sunday sermon (which he remembered thanks to his prodigious memory). Already then, he had ingeniously found a way to combine religion and entertainment. His entertainment was necer for entertainment sake but rather a façade or an advertisment for religious instruction. Even as a young pries...
Read more

St. Joseph: A Father after the Father's Heart (Book Review)

Image
  St. Joseph: A Father after the Father’s Heart , Hyderabad: Don Bosco Publishing House, 2021, Rs. 150, pp. 240. The book is a compilation of articles from various authors writing about qualities of St. Joseph. They have used the litany of St. Joseph as an index and have put together articles on each of the invocations. All the contributors are Salesians from different parts of India but there a couple of contributors from abroad as well. The book lends itself to be a souvenir of the Year of St. Joseph that Pope Francis declared. Let me start out by commenting on the quality of production. The paper is of good quality and so is the design and layout. It is neat and has an attractive cover. Coming to the content, it gets rather repetitive but that is understandable considering that there is so little Biblical foundation for an exposition of St. Joseph. The articles often reference Pope Francis’ letter Patris Corde and extensively utilize Pope St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhort...
Read more