Plot Summary: Ally Walker stars as Dr. Sam Waters, a psychic detective with the Violent Crimes Task Force, a federal agency which often works with the FBI...
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This is easily one of the lamest shows on the air
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Date: 11 February 2000 Summary: This is easily one of the lamest shows on the air
Rarely do I actually have anything bad to say about a TV show (as I only
rarely watch them), but this show has got to be among the worst things
produced in a long time. I started watching it because I had nothing better
to do on Saturday Nights (as I had a girfriend and she worked that night),
so I thought I would give it a shot.
Now I must preface what I am about to say by asserting that I am NOT some
Christian fundamentalist or cultural reactionary. I like slasher films, I
like serial killer movies. I have read books on many serial killers and
find them intriguing... with that said, I must point out that I think that
Profiler glorifies serial killers. The show has a tendency to substitute
the idea of profiling a killer for explaining his actions. I know that deep
down inside we all want to know that serial killers are not random and that
they can be understood, but they can't, and this show pushes that too
far.
The show either sympathizes with the killer by giving him "reasons" for what
he does (like the one with the shrewish mother) which tend to be overly
simplified, or it glorifies them by making almost every serial killer out to
be some deranged genius. Again, I normally would never say any of this
stuff, because these arguments are typically used to censor films. But in
the case of this show I simply can't understand it any other way. Also, the
acting and stories are pretty bad (hence, I have officially stopped watching
it).
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