A procedural drama following Philly PD's Missing Persons Unit.
When police officer Nikki Parker's son goes missing, she joins the Philadelphia PD's Missing Person's Unit to try and help others like her find their loved ones while she searches for her own.
After six years of looking, Nikki's world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband shows up with a proof-of-life photo of their missing child. But is it really him?
Comments (17)
02/11/23 at 01:46am
Where to start. I've caught up on episodes now, but for how long. It's off-the-wall ridiculous in every aspect which makes it hard to point out things that you find too much to take. But I will - two of the regular characters are particularly bad - the egg mystic crime location solving genius suffering victim herself wrecks things as they need a serious person in this role to temper other lunacy instead of adding more. The forensic pathologist character is way too sissy eccentric and likewise this funny farm ensemble cries for a more serious person in this role to give it a tiny bit of grounding.
The three main characters, even with their impossible dead-end triad relationship are likable, but that can't be sustained - and if it is sustained, it is so far from (what we all know) is remotely plausible - so our leads are destined for an early demise - unless this unworkable three-way is part of some unimaginable new woke agenda.
The home family aspect works so far but it always runs the high risk of wrecking the show.
Sometimes the show looks like John Wick with the Person of Interest's picture being broadcast to everyone's phone. It makes those shows look reasonable.
Nikki, the lead vigilante, constantly drifts in and out off accents, more often than Alec Baldwin's wife. Given that she's played by a Latin, it's almost acceptable. She yearns to be playing a cartel boss like Teresa in Queen of the South. Maybe she'll lose the accent like Taraji Henson did on Person of Interest. (I remember Taraji in the first couple of episodes with an overdone street accent which I thought terrible until I heard a cop on TV talk exactly like that. Didn't matter, they had her ditch it anyway.)
In short (ha ha), I don't know how long they can keep keep this love carnival going. The big three are good enough for the time being.
The three main characters, even with their impossible dead-end triad relationship are likable, but that can't be sustained - and if it is sustained, it is so far from (what we all know) is remotely plausible - so our leads are destined for an early demise - unless this unworkable three-way is part of some unimaginable new woke agenda.
The home family aspect works so far but it always runs the high risk of wrecking the show.
Sometimes the show looks like John Wick with the Person of Interest's picture being broadcast to everyone's phone. It makes those shows look reasonable.
Nikki, the lead vigilante, constantly drifts in and out off accents, more often than Alec Baldwin's wife. Given that she's played by a Latin, it's almost acceptable. She yearns to be playing a cartel boss like Teresa in Queen of the South. Maybe she'll lose the accent like Taraji Henson did on Person of Interest. (I remember Taraji in the first couple of episodes with an overdone street accent which I thought terrible until I heard a cop on TV talk exactly like that. Didn't matter, they had her ditch it anyway.)
In short (ha ha), I don't know how long they can keep keep this love carnival going. The big three are good enough for the time being.
02/09/23 at 10:00am
I see nobody in-charge of this website has addressed my 1/10/23 comment regarding the show NOT involving "LAPD" (which generally pertains to Los Angeles PD). That's this website's problem, not ALERT's issue.
ALERT is losing me as kidnapped son, Keith's issue is taking too long to resolve for me, along with his sister's involvement, if any.
Other little things:
The last episode has Scott C. talking about a "Mauser" sniper rifle but the casing was a .308, which is common to many brands and styles of rifle, not just a Mauser-brand rifle (which isn't particularly popular, btw).
Scott C., for S&W revolver fans, uses an old-school Model 36 snub-nose revolver mostly. Perhaps it's ok with the Philadelphia PD, but certainly uncommon nowadays. Everyone else on his team seems to be using a Glock, which is more common, hence realistic, for Police to be using. I do like revolvers, too, btw.
Overall, the weekly missing persons' storylines are ok, but not great; especially with the storylines, with Dania R.'s improvisation of an IED against the badguys; and how did the money come out of the sky?; and Adeola R.'s back-story was confusing to me and probably needs more development.
I'm sorry for the cast & crew, but I could easily drop this series from my inventory, if not for my wife, who hasn't yet decided.
ALERT is losing me as kidnapped son, Keith's issue is taking too long to resolve for me, along with his sister's involvement, if any.
Other little things:
The last episode has Scott C. talking about a "Mauser" sniper rifle but the casing was a .308, which is common to many brands and styles of rifle, not just a Mauser-brand rifle (which isn't particularly popular, btw).
Scott C., for S&W revolver fans, uses an old-school Model 36 snub-nose revolver mostly. Perhaps it's ok with the Philadelphia PD, but certainly uncommon nowadays. Everyone else on his team seems to be using a Glock, which is more common, hence realistic, for Police to be using. I do like revolvers, too, btw.
Overall, the weekly missing persons' storylines are ok, but not great; especially with the storylines, with Dania R.'s improvisation of an IED against the badguys; and how did the money come out of the sky?; and Adeola R.'s back-story was confusing to me and probably needs more development.
I'm sorry for the cast & crew, but I could easily drop this series from my inventory, if not for my wife, who hasn't yet decided.
02/04/23 at 08:59pm
This show has grown on me. I started watching it because of Scott Caan, but I have enjoyed the stories and the interwoven mystery about their son.
01/23/23 at 06:38pm
I gave it two episodes but this show is not watchable. Who greenlights this crap.
01/19/23 at 02:00pm
Woke junk show. First time some suposed professional tries to rub eggs on me I go to the papers, magazines and any other media who will listen and put them where they belong. Gender floppers,Way too many black people. 13 percent of the population making the other eighty seven do the dance and determining what we watch. Everybody is afraid of being called racist or some other crap. Grow a set you morons and actually program what the majority want to watch. And it really isnt this junk.
01/10/23 at 12:22pm
IMSC, your show description says "LAPD", but the show supposedly takes place in Philadelphia, PA.
Regardless of where the show's location supposedly is, after two episodes, I'm still not sure whether I'll like the series or not. There's a lot of "baggage" going on with the characters, so far. This may just be too complicated for my little mind.
Regardless of where the show's location supposedly is, after two episodes, I'm still not sure whether I'll like the series or not. There's a lot of "baggage" going on with the characters, so far. This may just be too complicated for my little mind.
01/08/23 at 05:22am
Every second counts (for a second) and I counted 3 seconds for the preview. I'm giving this a go cause it's a Caan.
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