Nice shots of the San Francisco with scenes shot in Vancouver, BC standing in for SF. Hint: SF does not have a range of mountains. There is one small peak to the north (Mt. Tam) and the Oakland Hills to the east (hardly mountains). Of course scenes the foliage was totally wrong for the Bay Area.
But don't waste your time as this is another formulaic TV cop and sidekick series using the "villain of the week" gimmick. It confirms that broadcast TV is indeed being used like a drug for the "great unwashed." I guess after "Lost" we expect more from J.J. Abrams but I fear it's all about the money these days and a paycheck for the creators. Not even Jorge Garcia (Hurley on Lost) can save this one. Oh, I need to mention the first villain is "Charlie Jade." ;-) I've gotten spoiled watching BBC series like "Being Human" where they don't insult the audience's intelligence. But "Being Human" is also an exceptional series, right up their with "Dexter" but with maybe even better writing and acting. Forget that it is about supernatural characters like vampires, ghosts and werewolves, these are "human" stories and finale of the third season was exceptional. Not so with the second season of the "North American version" produced for Syfy. The actors in the BBC version are far better and for some reason they've taken to renaming 3 of the characters such as Sally instead of Annie (the ghost). I need to watch an episode or two of Syfy's season one because the first episode of season two seems dumbed down a bit for Syfy 18 to 35 audience. It's also sillier lacking some of the subtler British humor. I watched the first season of the BBC version last year after Syfy's first season. Seemed to me the Syfy season one changed little of the dialog or scripts they used from the BBC version. Looks like Syfy execs have put their mediocre ideas into their second season. Too bad and I also can't stand the 1930's RCA audio equalization that NBC owned companies use. It's way out of date and sound terrible on a state of the art surround system with it's booming bass range (those interested can see that EQ curve with the free Audacity software).
