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8/10
Paper clips. eh
mikeholmes-4801218 November 2016
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Pretty good episode overall if you are more into suspense than reality. Instead of usual some other story climax not worthy of an episode with Mac escaping, it starts off with a bunch of flashbacks to the Borzak, whatever his name is, Macs Roommate ,the Chris Rock/Chris Tucker look alike. So its all about Borzak and how Mac Betrayed him. BOrzak has to be questioned by Thorton and detained so they can see he is not a threat now that he knows secrets. But people feel bad and blah blah blah. poor Borzak . Then we get to the plot and Mac goes to the pow-wow meeting with Thorton and i notice he takes a paper clip while being briefed ,from a big bowl of them and shapes stuff. I noticed it last episode. have they been doing this every episode and making it more obvious for dumbasses like me? He made paper clip handcuffs. think he made a heart or something last time.

So their job is to go to Lativia and stop some terrorist group of 50 people before they get big. But they are big and while Mac does capture the leader of the group with aerosol fireworks that he remembered from his days with Borzak (get used to everything Mac does being a theme of his friendship with BOrzak it doesn't stop here) they are in danger of running into all the reinforcements the bad guy SOS'ed on his phone before capture. So he makes a hot air balloon satellite, cause there is always an excuse why modern technology cant help them in that instant (this case satellite not in area and i get technology causes more problems sometimes). So bad guys apparently set up perimeter, but then they find streets wide open to run down. Avoid gun fire three cars away and then running ,and run to US embassy possibly by sheer luck and aren't shot cause Mac calls Thorton and is like "tell embassy we are about to run to with guys one block behind us in trucks and embassy 30 years away not to shoot. " they don't even bother explaining that and Mac and Co. are in embassy after amazing feats like Jack ducking bullets from an AK47 to his head and everyone realizes they are screwed and are going to die trapped in this embassy with help 4 hours away (seems unrealistic). Stuff happens, gadgets are made, eventually Mac makes a plan, like his first plan but this one works and everyone is safe. Borzak forgives Mac and , you won't believe this, is offered a job at Phoenix Foundation based on his nice Mask making skills . The beginning of this episode had them arguing while they are running. seems like a thing too, along with the shaped paper clips. where are they going with that.oh yeah, while Borzak was detained, he made a paper clip chain with those paper clips. That probably means something or something.
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3/10
Showing these kind of stories shows how little people know about each other.
JackX-235-78976319 November 2016
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I have gotten used to hearing and seeing many countries mentioned and described in movies and TV but this show took it to the next level on the 9th episode. I understand that shows must be flashy to draw in people but is it really that hard to make a show that is somewhat based in reality, describing events in places that they actually could take place? I know Americans are gun loving explosion enthusiasts, partly due to their 2nd amendment right, but the rest of the world is not. I know this show has free range to do as they please with their story. But why make stories up, centered around places they could NEVER happen? For Americans, this might be entertaining but for the rest of the world, it shows how little do you know about it. If you want to mention a country by name and describe it for background, it's fine with me, but when you actually need to show other countries don't do it this poorly. It just promotes prejudice and hatred which I think you could do without.

Spoiler !!!:

Aside from the background story about trust and friendship, this week's episode was about taking on a terrorist organization from Latvia with around 50 members to prevent it from becoming the next ISIS which is an absurd in itself but yet reasonable as stories go. They go to said country and detain the organization's leader (who speaks with no accent while speaking English but speaking Latvian there is a noticeable accent, even though English is his 2nd or 3ed language). after learning that their leader has been captured they decide to do car checks (here the crazy things start). People are unafraid of people with AK- 47(really?? where did you get them in THAT country?) . They begin a car chase and shootout breaks out (no-one called the local police? how are they outrunning a car ?). The MacGyver team and its detainee head to the American embassy (still running while being shot by automatic weapons and their only cover fire is a pistol, no MacGyver devices yet). They FINALLY get to the embassy (none are injured or out of breath and they just walk slowly after being just shot at). After that they want us to believe that this small group of terrorists has amassed such fear, that the local police force is unwilling to help an embassy being attacked( even less believable) . 14-15 terrorists vs 4 US marines to hold out for 6 hours with no additional supplies of ammunition (here comes MacGyver with his idea).
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1/10
There is no need for education to be a writer in Hollywood?
meelis-piller-127 March 2017
There is no need for education to be a writer in Hollywood? Seems the writer mistakes the life in some New York or Washington slums with the life of one capital of European Union. Sorry guys, but it seems very narrow-minded author. Same as in one of very weird TV show Skorpion Season 1 Episode 18 – a gang of "geniuses" trying to avoid WWIII which may start because of the kind of forest people conflict in the border of Belorussia and Latvia.
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1/10
Who is this made for?
jthaule22 February 2021
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Latvia as the breeding ground for a group of armed insurrectionists who walk around in the streets with assault rifles, and the authorities don't react? I mean, in Somalia or Syria, sure, but Latvia?

And the whole subplot with MacGyver's roomie belongs in a sitcom. A government agency who lets a civilian sit in when you call in the cavalry and discuss super secret ops? Also, as a NATO country bordering Russia there is a rapid response force in Latvia, you wouldn't need to call a carrier group to get reinforcements.

I think you have to be put through the best an American education can offer to buy this. This is an exercise in absolute idiocy. G.I. Joe cartoons had more believable plots, and those had Cobra Commander to boot.
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4/10
MacGyver's World
tenshi_ippikiookami25 April 2017
The globetrotting adventures of MacGyver and Co. through a wonderland version of our world, a parallel reality where everyone goes around with guns, shootings break up everywhere and no one seems to care, and things don't make much sense, continue. Sadly for us, this parallel reality is not much fun, has bad pace and takes some very strange decisions (on top of the non-stop not very subtle messages about cheap patriotism).

This time MacGyver (and others) have to 'kidnap' a terrorist leader. The mission goes awry pretty soon and MacGyver and the rest find themselves in the US embassy with the 'terrorists' encircling them. Will they be able to break free and go home? Will the leader die? And what about that pesky Bozer? Will the writers decide to write the character off and give him so very much needed holidays (at least for us, the viewers)?

The episode lacks in all departments. The story is another run-of- the-mill MacGyver gets a person and brings that person from A to B while our wonderful extras shoot, shout, jump and overact, but with little humor (which was the best aspect of previous episodes), bad pace, horrible writing and close to zero MacGyver creations. On top of that, the image the show keeps offering of the world we live in is... well, head-scratching.

And it is a pity, because the show is still breathing and has some life in it. It just seems unable to break free from its own limitations.
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