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User Reviews for: Second Chance

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CONTAINS SPOILERS4/10  8 years ago
Read the premise, thought it was intriguing enough to give it a chance.
After episode 1 I thought arrogant main character, odd and unbelievable environment.
After episode 2: this turns bad very quickly.
After first 10mins in episode 3: what utter crap, not going to bother anymore.

The biggest issue isn't even the unlikable, arrogant maincharacter Jimmy Pritchard.
But the sum of all issues and the ridicolous reasoning why he was given a second chance and how that is achieved and everything else is *falling* conveniently together. The second chance giving is never really explained but whatever is shown within this Facebook "parody" Looking Glass founders home regarding that, raises more questions than giving answers.

We get this "random" guy because he can help cure (or prolong the life of) Mary Goodwin, who has a more or less unknown sickness, killing her slowly. Now, his blood is enough to help her, occasional blood transfusion are therefore in order.
But that alone would be boring, we need kind of ties, ties that bind him to the Goodwins to keep the show running.
Hence, let's make his second chance thing a temporary thing only and make him need to get into a water tank every 12 hours or so.
If he's not in that tank in that timespan, he kind of dies, like a strangers limb that is repelled by your immunesystem if you don't take medicine. That way he can't just walk out and live a second life. Done.
But now we can also use this as time pressure what equals to drama and a strict timeframe for plots. Great!

Sooo, how does he breathe in that water tank, while being conscious!?
Who put him in the water tank, when he was that old, overweight guy? There never is anyone else within the home of Looking Glass where they do these supersecret things and Mary is weak (weak in the sense of being sick) and her brother is a wimp.
Seems like the staff is kept at a minimum to save costs in this show.

At the same time these three episodes up to now desperately try to establish the "odd couple" for this procedural crime show and that is what pushes me away from this show. Not only is this done numerous times but it's absurd. Mary Goodwin is not a suitable partner for Pritchard, not even in this kind of show, and she has no reason whatsoever to go out her way to help him, even getting herself in danger.
Not to speak of that her illness is severe enough to go to such great lengths to revive Pritchard - without consent - put his consciousness into a younger self and abduct him but put aside that illness as soon as she needs to help Pritchard when todays crime is in the focus.
Oh, wait, she does have a reason, she loves him, an arc we will see unfold sooner or later. Oookay.

Uninspired writing, lame plots, boring characters, yes, even plot holes (digital photos changing and only plot relevant people realize the change). This show has nothing to offer that wasn't done tons of times before (much better) and doesn't even try to do things right. *The whole show* seems like a filler for a timeslot.

If networks push one Almost Human "rehash" after the other they should have stuck to Almost Human.
Save yourself the time and watch that other show you always wanted to watch but never came around to do so instead of this.
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