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Numb3rs is a fantastic television program that my family enjoy watching on a weekly basis. It is fun to watch a show that requires some thought process. The actors do a superb job.
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This is one of the great shows I love. I've never been good at math but this show is so intrigue I'd love to go get some brush up on my math again. Love all the casting and the script is really good. It will keep you wanting more.
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NUMB3RS is a fascinating, original crime drams where much of the crime is solved by the genius of mathematics along with some good old fashioned police work, this time the FBI. The first season gives us much of the background on its cast of characters: Rob Morrow is the dedicated FBI sgent who gave up his previous assignment when his mother was dying of cancer and he came home to LA to be with his family; David Krumholtz is his younger brother Charlie, who is a mathematical genius, but also somewhat a loner in his personal relationships; Judd Hirsch is their father, the anchor in the family lineage trying to keep in touch with his disparate sons; Alimi Ballard and Sabrina Lloyd are Morrow's fellow agents; and Peter Macnicol hangs around as Charlie's mentor and advisee.
Sometimes the pacing seems a little slow and the mathematical explanations a little cumbersome; the progress of the family dynamics is probably necessary but sometimes it seems a little forced, as though they had to have something for Hirsch to do; but it all ties together quite nicely, and it's a worthy addition for television crime show afficionados' DVD library.
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Now here's an enticing premise for you. FBI agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) enlists the aid of his math-genius brother, Charlie (David Krumholtz) in the solving of Los Angeles crimes. The show's rather exotic plots make great use of two worlds, the FBI, and the college campus of CalSci, doubling for CalTech. One would expect to get the usual sort of felons--snipers, mad bombers, arsonists, terrorists--- and, yes, you'll find them all here but the show works very well as a whoddunit with the clock almost running out the hour before we bust our bad guy (or girl) who by the way is always predictably but not disappointingly the least likely suspect. But where this show sets itself apart from the standard crime-solver genre is in the "howdunnit" portion of the story and supplying these answers is the brilliant research team of CalSci genius, Charlie, his colleague, Amita, and, of course, the sometimes enigmatic but always entertaining, Dr. Fleinhardt. A very able supporting cast, great editing, and snazzy photography add to the appeal of this fine CBS show. Especially fun is the college physics genius, Larry Fleinhardt, played by Peter MacNicol. One only wishes they made more use of him. His background in quantum physics makes for some very lively discussions between himself and the harder number-crunched views of his former student, Charlie. And speaking of wanting more of something, I wouldn't mind seeing more of that campus. It's such a great backdrop and such a natural frame for a show where the chalkboard as much as a chalk outline spells Murder!
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As someone who actually understands quite a bit of math, I can say that the show's mathematical angle actually makes sense about 1/3 of the time, and when it does, the show is great. The other 2/3 of the time, the math is just mumbo-jumbo, and the show ends up being pretty similar to other crime procedurals. Even those episodes are good, though in a more traditional way. (They allegedly have a CalTech mathematician on retainer to make sure the math makes sense. But it's hard to come up with a distinct way for real math to solve 22 crimes a year, so I think the expert often just supplies technical-sounding language and cool-looking but mostly irrelevant equations.)
I must disagree with the previous reviewer who criticized Peter MacNicol's portrayal of Fleinhardt. To me, he's the most believable character on the show -- very much the abstract academic thinker. His presence allows for direct nerd-to-nerd conversation, and MacNicol carries it off with geeky charm. Without him, I'd have a hard time buying the premise that Charlie is really a genius professor instead of a forensic scientist. Fleinhardt is what keeps one of Charlie's feet in the academic world.
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