
February 1st, 2011

Cory Barker
Poor Human Target. Not only has it been constantly shuffled around on the schedule because FOX really has no confidence in it (and for good reason), but it has been heavily criticized by its small band of S1 fans. Those circumstances make last night’s special viewing of “Kill Bob” sort of interesting — or disappointing, depending on who you ask.
Again, I know I haven’t seen all or even most of season one, but it seemed like “Kill Bob” made a concerted effort to feel more like an episode from that era than what we’ve been given this season. Ames and Ilsa had very little to do throughout, leaving Chance, Guerrero and Winston to be on their own doing their thing. Moreover, this episode didn’t feature any special guest stars that existed as horrible attempts to create recurring characters and even better, there wasn’t any major personal connection to the case. The series has gone to one of those two wells in nearly every episode this season so it was nice to see the three male leads out in the field blowing stuff up and kicking ass with little discussion about larger issues.