"MHORDER" is a Quantico episode that oddly plays more like a drawing room comedy or drama, the sort of movie that is enjoyable but went out with the 1930. Mainly due to a lengthy centerpiece of a large-scale engagement party staged by our heroes to try and entrap the bad guys, the show veers away from action and suspense to standard and corny "sting" techniques, in which too many characters simultaneously jockey to get the upper hand.
Poor writing and pedestrian direction leave the popular cast out at sea, with even our lovely heroines Chopra and Yasmine behaving more like lovely wooden mannequins than the forceful presences we tune in to see. Much of the plot twisting is dumb and cavalier in content, clearly meant to set up many episodes to come, but for me as great a failure as some endless SNL sketch that goes nowhere or one of those "24" subplots early in a season that is later abandoned due to its clunkiness.
By the end of the hour, I was ready to write this one off as a one-off tangential & worthless episode, rather than the table-setter it was intended to be.
Poor writing and pedestrian direction leave the popular cast out at sea, with even our lovely heroines Chopra and Yasmine behaving more like lovely wooden mannequins than the forceful presences we tune in to see. Much of the plot twisting is dumb and cavalier in content, clearly meant to set up many episodes to come, but for me as great a failure as some endless SNL sketch that goes nowhere or one of those "24" subplots early in a season that is later abandoned due to its clunkiness.
By the end of the hour, I was ready to write this one off as a one-off tangential & worthless episode, rather than the table-setter it was intended to be.
