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D.I. Rebecca Flint and scientist Christian Kane race against time in BBC's "Paradox"

Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As the space scientist Christian Kane attempts to explain their source, a small team of detectives, headed by D.I. Rebecca Flint, race against time to change the future and save lifes.

Episode 01
I thought I get a bit more from a series, which was declared as “FlashForward”‘s little series brother by series freaks. But I was kinda bored during the first hour from the show. And even though I liked the story, I couldn’t start to like the characters, especially D.I. Flint (Tamzin Outhwaite), the female lead detective. She and her team are not really interesting, their relationship is unbelievable, the acting skills are not really that great and the dialog was sometimes really cheesy.
Basically, Paradox is not really a FlashForward brother, it is more a copy of Seven Days. A team prevents catastrophes from happening, and they are using pictures, sent from the future through solar activities. I don’t want to know how the pictures got in the hands of King (Emun Elliott), for me to develop interest in that topic, the episode was way too much of a crime show and didn’t take the sci-fi part very seriously. It is like Life on Mars: Take an interesting sci-fi story, but pack it into a usual procedural story, where the sci-fi part isn’t really big.
The episode story was okay, but the actual threat was completely boring. At least the writers managed to get some thrill into the last quarter of the episode, which made it more entertaining. And it was good that Flint and her team failed in preventing the catastrophe – but I think that was just there to let the main characters show that the pictures really showed the future. I think the team is successful in preventing catastrophes in the next episodes.
When the writers work on their characters, get a bit more thrill into the stories and stop to lengthen them through the same scenes over and over again (like the almost sleeping truck driver, I think I saw him closing his eyes for five times, you could have cut this easily), then Paradox could be interesting. For now the first episode was just blah. 5/10

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