Hey everyone, I feel like it’s been a while. Maybe because it has? It’s been since 11/1 since I posted, and even longer since I actually wrote a whole review. Let’s hope someone missed me.
I'm sure you kept busy without me.
“Numb3rs” is a show that I laughed at hard when it came out. This was 2005 and I hadn’t yet developed my weird crush on David Krumholtz. I like him so much I even tried watching “Partners” last fall. It wasn’t easy and the last year has really flown by. The program I’m focusing on today though centered on a detective and his math genius brother solving crimes with their friends while Judd Hirsch doodled about being crotchety. Needless to say, that actually sounds good to me now. In 2005 though when I was 16 I believe my thought would have been quote, “Well that’s gay. I hate math.” Thanks to my girlfriend, her family and a shared Netflix account, my tastes have been broadened.
and why not? I'm a guy. Forgive me. There were plenty of good looking men to counteract.
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about one, and despite my tendency to review them favorably, I still hold that I hate cop shows. “Numb3rs” is different enough to get a pass. Of course Don Eppes, the older detective son and his subplots are my least favorite since the faux dramatics can be a little much. That being said, most of the dialogue is crisp, smart and probably riddled with math errors that my mind can’t pick up on. These characters are human. You care about them. Well I care about them but I would conjecture that you too would care about them. I’ll level with you; no one has to care about Larry Fleinhardt. Even with his spiritual and holier-than-thou posturing, I’d rather listen to Larry than deal with any insufferable and stiff dialogue in your run of the mill cop dramas.
Let’s get back to talking about David Krumholtz. You don’t want to? Well too bad. This is my review. Start your own review and go on about Rob Morrow if you want. Better yet, make it Alimi Ballard and I’ll read it. I keep getting off topic. Whether it’s a guest spot on “Freaks and Geeks” or a couple lines in “This is the End” or even yet a co-starring role in “Addams Family Values” I very much enjoy his work. I really don’t have much more to add. Just watch his stuff. Look up him dancing in the show “Undeclared”. Read this first of course, but then do that. His only negative is that he’s I think the first guy my girlfriend ever openly fawned over in front of me, but I follow him on Twitter and he’s out of his mind so I think I’m safe.
This show involves to universes. That of the cops and that of the intellectual snobs. Charlie Eppes and his eventual lover Amita and weird mentor Larry are needed in a very “Monk” fashion because the police force seems to live or die on the eccentricities of one weird man. Come to think of it I’d expect this show to be on USA. Add on “Psych” and we can have a marathon of cops who shouldn’t get paid. Throw in a “Medium” and we’ll have ourselves a real powerful line up. A psychic, a fake psychic, a math teacher and a man with OCD. That sounds like the start of the worst “they walked into a bar” jokes in history.
I’m keeping the review short. I didn’t share much info I realize. I honestly don’t remember a single name of any other cop on the show. That’s how little cops interest me. The college gang even waned a bit for me as Charlie and Amita started to court and Larry got really far out there. The premises and math seemed to get more outlandish as time went on and outside of Judd Hirsch and guest stars from the “Apatow” click I was kind of over this show by season four. America normally hates thinking and this show made them only do enough to get six seasons. Like me, I’m assuming even America was done with the statistical crime show. I guess “Bing Band Theory” is as smart as America can handle.
I just....I can't.