I Watch TV: MacGyver

So the new version of MacGyver has run for two seasons now, and I’ve mostly watched it, partly because that timeslot on a Sunday has very little else that interest me. And it’s good to watch some TV with witty banter, explosions, bad guys, double crossing and more-or-less dubious science experiments.

MacGyver (the show, maybe the character too?) even expresses doubts on going to foreign parts and interfering with stuff occasionally. Not enough to stop doing it*, but enough to have a couple of minutes for the boss to talk some sense back into them. What’s the point of being American if you can’t blow up some terrorists in another country?

It’s a reboot of the old one, not in continuity. Frankly it’s not even in continuity with itself; Jack Dalton’s timeline makes no sense as he seems to have been in the army, then joined the CIA, then been in the army again to meet and partner up with MacGyver, then gone back to the CIA and/or joined the DXS with MacGyver when they got out the army. I mean maybe it actually works but I don’t care enough to actually look it up.

I mean is this is what it is; it’s not great TV, and most of the time it’s not even good TV, but it had a bunch of things I like, explosions, fistfights, improvised nonsensical machines, and sometimes that’s enough.

Watch This: For unpretentious, light-hearted action adventure.
Don’t Watch This: If this all sounds dumb, and not in a good way, just in a dumb way.

* When MacGyver quits it’s for personal reasons.