S01.E03: Zoey

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The MPU searches for a college student after she goes missing during a house party. Meanwhile, Sidney and Keith try to adjust to normal life again.

Original air date: Jan 16 2023

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Rebecca Ablack
Casey Marie Ecker
Graham Verchere as Keith

[TheOtherOne]

I just fast forwarded through this one to see if it got any better.

The ten-minute sex break in the middle of the case set to soft porn music? So stupid. Embarrassingly so.

I'm glad that the main characters are already clued in that he's not really Keith (though I'm hoping for a twist--it would be more interesting now if he really was). But the fact that she only now got the baby hair to do a DNA test...and then PUT THE HAIR BACK and wasn't going to do the test until she saw her daughter taking measures to protect herself... What?!? Again, these are not the actions of an intelligent person. And now what...they're just going to have this person in their house who they don't believe while they run the tests?

These people are just dumb.

Edited January 17, 2023 by TheOtherOne

[Infiltr8]

I’m about 10 min in and I can’t…… the first episode , the parents don’t come down to the police station to see their kidnapped daughter… especially knowing he is cia (and did not have cia looking for daughter??) — 2nd ep not much better, now kid been gone for years, won’t talk about it now they want him back in school ?? How about some therapy…… looking for missing woman (we get our babies back does not really ring for college age kid ) where time is an issue but time for a quickie?? I’m curious what the daughter knows but not enough to keep watching— 

[snarkysnarkerson]

This show is freaking terrible. I am sure Keith already swapped the hair and then this will drag on. Also, this Caan guy is fug and can’t act.

[Madding crowd]

This is the second episode where they are trying to save a kidnap victim by shooting at the car where the victim is being held. I get that they were being shot at but it would make more sense to let the kidnapper get away from the immediate area than risk killing the victim.

They are not handling the doubt about Keith in a realistic way. First off, I would think the law would demand a DNA test before just let Keith move in with these people. Then I can understand a parent simply not recognizing their child and being doubtful but they are doubtful over things like a teenager doing different on a test than a young child would do, or the fact that this almost adult said “surprise “ me with dinner when child Keith didn’t like surprises. Those are things that could change. 

[Clanstarling]

I'm struggling to like this show.  I like the cast and the basic concept, but the idiocy of a missing person's cop who refuses to deal with her "son" in any professional or reasonable fashion just takes me out of it. Ignoring their daughter's insistence that he's not her brother (she probably knew RealKeith best). DNA is the first thing to do, and insistence on therapy seems like the second. it's a sledgehammer approach to the tension between her professional and parental sides.

I also have a real problem with Kemi's rituals. I don't mind her spirituality at all, but performing the rituals (and including the frightened parents) is over the top. I like the actress very much, but I have to roll my eyes or get ticked for the parents' sake.

I'm not sure if I will stick too it - I watch it during exercise but I'm rolling my eyes a lot, and talking back to the tv.

FakeKeith shouldn't have entered the picture until all the characters were well established, imo.

PS - the reason I'm slamming her more than Caan is that she's the head of the missing person's unit and most definitely knows protocol. Also, like others, the "babies" thing is getting on my nerves.

Edited January 17, 2023 by Clanstarling

[ROEHUNTER]

Decided I would look at these comments before I watched number 3. I was hoping that maybe it was a bit better, but sounds like it got worse. And them shooting into a car again! That was dumb in the first episode, ugh. I'm out on this one, going to keep binge watching a real missing persons show, Without a Trace. 

[jabRI]

Keith probably did switch the hair, his mom said he wanted to look at old photo albums, etc, in his room.  This ep was poorly written, hard to follow.  Like paying back the Epstein debt, makes no sense.  And of course the reincarnated lady only marries famous men, no carpenter or accountant, such malarky!

[Clanstarling]

14 hours ago, jabRI said:

Keith probably did switch the hair, his mom said he wanted to look at old photo albums, etc, in his room.  This ep was poorly written, hard to follow.  Like paying back the Epstein debt, makes no sense.  And of course the reincarnated lady only marries famous men, no carpenter or accountant, such malarky!

No one ever says they were a regular person in their past lives. LOL

I had the same thought about the hair.

[JH Lipton]

On 1/17/2023 at 5:35 PM, ROEHUNTER said:

Decided I would look at these comments before I watched number 3. I was hoping that maybe it was a bit better, but sounds like it got worse. And them shooting into a car again! That was dumb in the first episode, ugh. I'm out on this one, going to keep binge watching a real missing persons show, Without a Trace. 

There's another show called Found coming this fall to NBC (from What to Know About Found:

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The premise of Found is chilling, shining a spotlight on the harrowing statistic that in any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. Of these reported cases, more than half of the missing people are people of color, too easily neglected by the system. Shanola Hampton stars as Gabi Mosely, a former missing person herself, who now specializes in PR and leads a crisis management team that seeks out these missing people

 

[hookedontv]

I’m totally hate-watching this show now. It’s ridiculous. Where do I begin? 
1. Keith’s DNA would already be in the database. He was a missing kid, they would have loaded his DNA in so that if leads were to come in (dead kid, live kid) across the country, there would already be DNA in the system to match. 
2. Hair from a baby book? Don’t you need the root of the hair (not the hair from a first haircut) to get DNA? That’s what Law & Order University has taught me. 
3. They catch the guy and his car for the 2nd kidnapping, and they don’t think to check the backseat or the trunk (where they knew that’s where he put the first girl in) right away? It’s only after she’s screaming as the car catches fire?

4. Could the divorced couple cut down on the PDA in the office? Convenient that every time they touch, the fiancé happens to be watching from the second floor. 

5. Stupid closet sex scene. If I wanted to see people having sex during work in a supply closet, I would just watch Gray’s Anatomy. 
The End.