Comments on: Fall Premieres 2015: NBC

By: Laura E Felschow

Laura E Felschow — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:08:19 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, Kyra! I’ve since read other reviews of the pilot episode from other outlets and many speak of the opening scene in Times Square as a piece of riveting TV. Me, I started cringing immediately and I don’t think I stopped for about twenty minutes! (I mean…she has a man’s name literally tattooed across her back, and that man spends the entire episode questioning her and ordering her around. Uncomfortable to watch, indeed.) But, given that each time Weller tried to boss Jane around, he eventually had to admit he needed her help…maybe all that macho posturing and the positioning of Jane-as-helpless-victim will stop. I’m willing to give the show a few more episodes simply because I enjoy Alexander as an actress, but all my prior experience as a TV viewer tells me I shouldn’t get my hopes up.

By: Kyra Hunting

Kyra Hunting — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:08:27 +0000

All great analysis here. I wanted to chime in on how much Blindspot kind of broke my heart. As one of the links Melissa Click offers, the trailers made Jaimie Alexander’s character look enticingly interesting, strong and powerful and well the premise leaves the potential for that to happen. I found the combination of the extensive time she spent speechless and naked, her frequent fear and helplessness, and MOST disturbingly the fact that she was constantly saying “please” and asking permission to act really off-putting. Some of the premise makes this logical, the fear spurred by total amnesia but the combination of features, for me, made it intensely uncomfortable for me to watch. As many of you said Jaimie Alexander, and the women who were enticed to watch by the trailers, deserves better.