When an American girl leaves home to meet her boyfriend in Turkey, the International Response Team suspects she's in trouble after being tricked by someone posing as her boyfriend.When an American girl leaves home to meet her boyfriend in Turkey, the International Response Team suspects she's in trouble after being tricked by someone posing as her boyfriend.When an American girl leaves home to meet her boyfriend in Turkey, the International Response Team suspects she's in trouble after being tricked by someone posing as her boyfriend.
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- TriviaSonya Walgner also appeared in several episodes CSI:NY with Gary Sinese
- GoofsEmma was told not to bring her phone to Turkey, so the terrorists would have had no way to contact her until she got to the apartment. They would have had to give Emma the address in the emails, so Monty could have just relayed the information to the team. There was no need for Simmons and Jarvis to use the background noise on Emma's voicemail message to find her destination.
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Russ Montgomery: [Hooking up Emma's laptop] Okay, now if I was a teenage girl, how would I choose to hide my secret communication with my super secret boyfriend?
[Types, notices something strange]
Russ Montgomery: Hello? Why hide a calculator app? Unless it holds the combination key to your heart? E-m-i-r... Bingo!
[Looks at his watch]
Russ Montgomery: 60 seconds, I must be getting slower. Also must be getting senile, 'cause now I'm talking to myself
- ConnectionsReferences Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
That was the case with 'Beyond Borders'. There are not many shows to show little to no improvement, apart from some sporadic moments of more cohesion or a character made more interesting. And certainly not many to be continually bad and not have a good episode (certainly the case with the first season especially) throughout its run. 'Beyond Borders' is one of those rare shows on both counts. One of its nadirs is "The Matchmaker" and the portrayal of Turkey, while one of its worst problems, is not its only problem. A disgrace to the franchise and even the worst of the original show would be more preferable to watching this.
Its least bad asset and the only thing to be considered a redeeming merit is the game effort of Juliete Angelo who is the only actor to not actually be lost amongst everything else. Usually Alana De La Garza is the one halfway tolerable aspect of the show, not this time due to not remembering her.
Gary Sinise looks bored, don't think he was ever worse than he is on 'Beyond Borders' and he is well above the terrible material the show continually gives him, and my intense dislike of Mae still remains and never went. None of the team members have compelling personalities and some irritate. They don't work cohesively as a team either and even don't seem to have much chemistry. The villains are stereotypical and un-menacing, not coming over as realistic either. The one sympathetic character in the whole is the victim and she is sketchily developed and has little to do, it is only the sadistic treatment of her that makes her sympathetic.
Writing is continually awkward and treats the viewer like idiots in the way it talks down to them. Any attempts at levity, once or twice perhaps, feel too pat, thrown in and out of place. The story has no dramatic tension (the stakes don't feel that high here), no suspense, makes little sense and the treatment of the victim is far too gratuitously cruel. Then there is the ridiculous and predictable climax and the tacked on very end that is so at odds with what came before. The episode is very basic at best-looking with no care or authenticity and the music has no presence.
As said, the representation of Turkey and its culture is going to cause offense even for those not easily offended and badly ruins the episode. Have very rarely come across an episode for anything, or even anything full-stop, that stereotyped a person, country etc. in so negative, judgemental, one-sided and grossly inaccurate a way, it was insulting and this sort of thing usually does not bother me. The writers for 'Beyond Borders' continually showed that they had little sense of geography knowledge and their research skills were at best rudimentary, a lot of the time like here (one of the worst examples on the show) both go completely out of the window.
Concluding, 'Beyond Borders' continues its bad run and this is one of the worst and most insensitive episodes. 1/10
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- Feb 24, 2020
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