A Gifted Man - Pilot, S01E01

What a terrible, terrible show. I didn't like the main character at all, the person who somewhat redeems him and is his love interest is dead, and his decision to see a medium to try to rid himself of this haunting made no sense for such a strong believer in science.

This is a rule that shows should not break: Don't try to get me invested in a romantic relationship where one half of the party is dead! Unless of course the dead one is a vampire or something of that sort...But not a ghost! Not simply dead. I have no interest in caring about a character I know isn't going to be around much, or isn't ever going to be able to BE ALIVE.

And if that rule being broken wasn't enough to prevent me from becoming interested, nothing else was going on anyway. The medical stuff that usually can entertain regardless of character plot lines, like murder investigations in cop shows, was so secondary that I couldn't care. He's a doctor, but the pilot didn't focus on that; it's simply the career he chose. So we didn't really get to see any cool medical science.

All we got were grumpy people being nasty to one another and really not helping in situations which were going badly, the impression that people are all pretty stupid and do very little to preserve their own lives, and the reminder that when it comes to love, most people wait until it's too late or leave too soon. Why would any of that interest me?