I had high hopes for this series but when I got through it...I knew why it only lasted 3 seasons.
Right off you realize your getting a Mission impossible clone with a comic touch...i.e...I Spy. Sadly though, the scripts and acting in this is so poor it's really laughable. I can pick a few moments from this and explain in detail but the problem is...there are so many bad moments it's just a laugh.
Take the third season. By looks it's the best season because of the first 10 episodes were bases in Italy. As soon as that goes away and you sit back and see how terrible the acting was you realize that all the money for that production went to pay for the scenery shots in Italy and not any decent actors. I mean there's one shot where a guy is shooting at Alex Mundy in broad daylight and there's people all around him. They don't run from the guy with the gun...they just stand there gawking. Just terrible. The third rate actors they chose were just that...third rate.
Another funny part is the constant re-use of the same sets. there are episodes where it's back to back. They don't even spread out the use of em. Next episode you'll say.."hey, that looks familiar". Most episodes they usually show one street you'll always recognize throughout the series. This same street and set up show up in a scene where they're in East Berlin lol. Man they really went the cheap route when they ran this series through production.
The only saving grace of this series is Robert Wagner. He can usually pull any bad movie out of the fire and make it into something better. He barely does in this. It's not enough to give this series high marks but he's an interesting watch.
Watch this series and you'll know why it didn't last but only 3 seasons. By the end of the last season you get really tired of the same type of plots and bad acting and scripts and re-done scene shots. Watching this you could almost make it out to be a comedy....of errors.
Right off you realize your getting a Mission impossible clone with a comic touch...i.e...I Spy. Sadly though, the scripts and acting in this is so poor it's really laughable. I can pick a few moments from this and explain in detail but the problem is...there are so many bad moments it's just a laugh.
Take the third season. By looks it's the best season because of the first 10 episodes were bases in Italy. As soon as that goes away and you sit back and see how terrible the acting was you realize that all the money for that production went to pay for the scenery shots in Italy and not any decent actors. I mean there's one shot where a guy is shooting at Alex Mundy in broad daylight and there's people all around him. They don't run from the guy with the gun...they just stand there gawking. Just terrible. The third rate actors they chose were just that...third rate.
Another funny part is the constant re-use of the same sets. there are episodes where it's back to back. They don't even spread out the use of em. Next episode you'll say.."hey, that looks familiar". Most episodes they usually show one street you'll always recognize throughout the series. This same street and set up show up in a scene where they're in East Berlin lol. Man they really went the cheap route when they ran this series through production.
The only saving grace of this series is Robert Wagner. He can usually pull any bad movie out of the fire and make it into something better. He barely does in this. It's not enough to give this series high marks but he's an interesting watch.
Watch this series and you'll know why it didn't last but only 3 seasons. By the end of the last season you get really tired of the same type of plots and bad acting and scripts and re-done scene shots. Watching this you could almost make it out to be a comedy....of errors.