FBI (TV Series) Scorched Earth (2019) User Reviews

"Scorched Earth"

[allmoviesfan · 7/10 · 3 March 2024]

There is a very strong whiff of misogyny in the air on "Scorched Earth", a pretty good episode that takes us inside the world of the Wall Street elites and presents some thoroughly disreputable and unlikeable characters along the way.

And I'm not just talking about the people OA and Maggie believe might be responsible for the pipe bombs killing people across the city. At the NY Field Office, Jubal and Dana must deal with hotshot profiler (which is Dana's turf) Spencer Briggs, who must be a lot of fun at parties. A well-written character, because I couldn't stand the guy, a real you-know-what. A strong performance from Sela Ward, too.

Bomb proof window

[raytalbot-11041 · 8 November 2019]

When bomb exploded in coffee shop (pipe bomb) the shop windows stay intact?? How's that?

Had potential to be Good!

[corey-hawn · 1/10 · 4 March 2019]

This episode is what is exactly wrong with a lot of the Hollywood crap these days. Instead of making an episode that's entertaining, and real. They push there agenda down your throat. They start off with a female boss who seems to be kind of a jerk and a pain to work for (as there are plenty of men like that too). However, if you don't like her as a boss your chauvinist pig. Then there is the male FBI profiler who is sent to help with the case, but the female boss is a former profiler as well so this done not sit well. They turn this guy into a chauvinist when it seems that all he is doing is obeying orders from a hire boss than them both to be there. The whole episode has this feminisms vs evil men ton and of course if you loose you kill them. Then just Incase you were sold on wanting to not like the male fbi profiler to make him seem evenmore of a bad guy they through in something stupid at the end. I don't have any FBI profiler training and even I could tell that the bomber did not have a feminist agenda. But they make this guy believe so strongly in it that he publicly defies the female boss who use to be a profiler herself. I will let you figure out who you think was right. Like the show, but this is a soap box episode. It's safe to skip wish I had the time back.

What a let down

[jtowner-17353 · 2/10 · 6 March 2019]

I've quite enjoyed this show since its inception but this episode should be shown as a training film by the FBI as to "how not to behave." Surely, such "thin-skinned, do you know who I am" senior agents in charge, such as Dana Moiser, do not really exist within one of the top law enforcement agencies in the world.

Surely, senior agents in charge would not be threatened by a less experienced agent to such an extent that they have to belittle him/her? "I'm the Boss." Really!! So insecure that you have to tell people.

What an insult this episode was to the FBI and its agents.

A step to far

[cazmor · 3/10 · 19 March 2019]

As a huge fan of Missy Peregrym I was hanging in hoping for a more even keel.

Unfortunately this has taken a severe turn left and with very little tact, the show has shown that it prefers to portray a more liberal stance, but this episode has shown the most extreme so far and in doing so has soured many of the characters.

We are looking for strong characters, unfortunately the writers for this episode have portrayed what I can only think the the FBI would rather not betray, which is petty and insecure, not to say illegal, 'because we can'... seriously?

This show has turned into an 'us vs them', with unfortunately the worst characteristics of both sides shown, with horrific lines such as 'don't you dare say women aren't allowed' only make it more cringe worthy and off-hand snide lines such as 'that's the problem, it's never clear cut' isn't good enough to justify the poor attitudes.

Raise the bar, for all our sakes

Last time we watch this show

[scubatke · 1/10 · 7 March 2019]

This show is bad TV for many reasons. One of those reasons is the political agenda that permeates each episode to varying degrees with the Scorched Earth episode being WAY over the top. After getting off to a bad start, we thought that maybe in time the show would improve and it did improve a little. But the Scorched Earth episode lived up to it's name taking every opportunity to shove a political agenda down the viewers throats. Dear CBS...please leave the political agendas to your news broadcasts and leave them out of your entertainment shows.

Sexism

[dshell102 · 3/10 · 15 March 2019]

For an episode trying to show sexism, they do a great job of showing how awful it is. Women attacking their suspect over their personal beliefs, holding him because "they can", unwilling to admit when wrong, "because I'm the boss" and so on.

This one would have been great with a better writer. (Unless showing the sexism in women was the intent, lol, but I doubt it.)