Without a Trace (TV Series) Primed (2007) User Reviews

Incomplete story. An up and down episode.

[bcameron-07042 · 6/10 · 21 July 2016]

I really wanted to like this episode, but I ended up feeling disappointed. It had a couple of guest actors who I like including Trever O' Brien in it. I'm a fan of his work on other shows, but even his performance seemed a bit off. Perhaps it was the writing. At times, I thought the writing and story were shaky. Every time I would get interested in a new development in the story, it kinda fell a bit flat shortly afterwards.

And once the ending credits came up, the story felt incomplete. There were some unresolved issues involving not only what happened to the main person who went missing, but also with another character that died. And also what would happen to a "third member" of the story. His story was definitely incomplete. I thought the story had potential, but it ended up falling flat and being incomplete. Not sure what was with the writing for this episode. It was just weird. I'll still give it 6 stars for keeping me interested at times, but too many unanswered questions in this episode.

Very simple review

[christinah-26205 · 5 January 2019]

Where the heck was the ending! Beyond disappointed

An episode with no end, missing important narrative

[justchillz · 1/10 · 19 September 2015]

This could have been the best episode on without a trace, but it had no end. I expected the next episode to be a continuation of it, but I was wrong.

They interrogate the guy they suspect killed the lead character, he lawyers up. Police find the girl in a shallow grave and it ends there. It's aggravating because it was finally getting good at the end. The best part of the show where it should have all come together, the writer got lazy, forgot to end the show. It's so frustrating because it's the second episode I wasted time watching in order to be left with no end.

I read posts on other websites for this episode, and people were waiting a month to see the end of this episode, and it was never given. You are left to guess or come up with your own end. The point of watching a show is to see a good story. What story is "good" without an end? A lazy ignoramus wrote this episode and taunted viewers by leaving them hanging at the end.

The show did get worse at season 5, but it's because the writer wanted to leave you guessing. It would have been nice to know if they caught the jerk who killed the painter and how he killed her. Did he push her off the bridge, strangle her, shoot her? How did he get her into those woods and to that bridge? Was she killed elsewhere or there? It's like a high school student wrote it, crucial details are missing in the plot.

The writer would have failed English writing! I'm just peeved. I wanted to know what happened and the show ended with a girls head sticking out of a shallow grave - that was the end. It's got to be the most unintelligent, lazy ending an episode could have. It's no wonder the show got canceled. You get invested in the story, you want to know what happened to the painter, and you are left with diddly SQUAT (a head sticking out of a shallow grave)! It should have been "to be continued." The writer of this episode should have been fired for being too lazy to write an end to this episode.

Unanswered Questions

[brianrobertonline · 2/10 · 14 August 2016]

Spoiler(?) alert: Don't waste your time watching this episode. This is a rather "dark" episode, and felt more like an episode of the *Twilight Zone* to me. No undertones of anything paranormal--just that the whole hour remains stuck in unrelenting gloom.

The plot develops two questions(for me anyway) that were unanswered by the end of the show. (I won't spoil things too much by telling you what they are.) I couldn't use logic; or imagination; to fill in the blanks. The writer(s) didn't allow for that. Why do writers always have to tamper with a proved formula? This episode is to *Without a Trace* what "New" Coke was to Coke. A failure. (I know; it's a weak analogy; but it works.) Don't waste your time. By the way; it's not continued in subsequent episodes.

Incidentally; I tried several times to change "proved" formula to "proven." The editing software seems to be sleeping.

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