Three interesting new shows pop up at once, Barry, The Terror and this one. That's good, right?
I quite liked the look of the images at the start, promising, underwater etc.
Steve Zahn is normally the kiss of death to a show, not that he's a bad actor, he does his one character well, but everything he touches seems to go badly.
I'd already watched the other 2 and they were both surprisingly good, fresh, interesting, not cliche, not obvious, aimed at an intelligent audience and treating them with respect. The bar was set high.
Then The Crossing. The cliches came fast. I felt bad for Zahn. Straight into the macho law enforcement 'this is our crime scene' shtick, absolutely done to death and quite wrong as another reviewer pointed out. I just can't stomach the same trite mcguffins over and over again. It's boring, it really is.
It wasn't all dull though, there were some interesting aspects that gave hope. The future people discussing how meat came from real animals, the evolutionary different Apex people, all stuff dealing with the good part of the show, ie the idea of future humans coming back to present time and the issues with that. No one wants to see US cop tropes trundled out exactly the same as in every other generic show ever made. they're not comforting, or entertaining, they're boring. Do something different with this show please, or it will be relinquished to the Zahn curse.
Review of The Crossing
