Limitless
The current show I am watching on Netflix is Limitless. Only one
season has come out and I just watched the 22nd episode of the
season on August 8th. This
show is classified as a crime tv drama and has an average rating of five stars
on Netflix. In this particular episode Brian, the main character, is given NZT,
which is a drug that the FBI provides him with as long as he works for them.
Meanwhile they are studying him because they think he doesn’t get the side
effects like everyone else but little do they do know he gets an immunity shot
from Senator Mora and his posy. Sans, the guy that provides Brian’s immunity
shot has gone rogue and has captured a girl that Brian is in love with and used
to work for Senator Mora. Brian uses NZT to find Piper and arrest Sans. Piper
is the only person besides Senator Mora that knows how to make the immunity
shot, which Brian is no longer receiving since Sans went rogue. At the end of
the episode they capture Sans and the lab blows up and they don’t find Piper,
so Brian assumes she is dead. When he returns home at the end of the night,
Piper is there and explains that she escaped when the explosion happened and
made it out of there with the immunity shot she finally created. It is
different than the other immunity shots because she found a way to make it so
the shot lasts for life and not for two weeks. She gives it to Brian and
explains that she now has to leave so no one finds her. After she leaves the
episode ends and this is also the end of the season.
The creator of the show is
Craig Sweeny and some of the main characters are Jake McDorman, Jennifer
Carpenter, Hill Harper, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
The main character dresses like typical twenty-year old’s. He
dropped out of college and was always getting in trouble in high school. He smokes
marijuana all the time and just chills at home if he is not working at the FBI.
A lot of younger people can relate to him because he has real family
issues/life problems. The other main characters are accomplished FBI agents how
are very strict and knowledgeable. This show kind of reminds me of Castle. In
Castle there is an agent who isn’t actually qualified to be a part of the
department but comes along for his books and falls in love with one of the
agents much like Brian does.
There are lots of stereotypes in this show. Like I have
already said Brain is stereotyped as a college dropout who lives at home with
his parents, can’t find a stable job, eats all day, and smokes marijuana. They
also stereotype the FBI agents by the way they are all dressed in suits all
day, every day. Even when they aren’t at work in the show they are wearing
suits. They don’t do anything at work and any of them that attempt to go on
dates have a failing love life and can’t get past the first date. I think the
creators are targeting people in their twenties that can relate to Brian in
some sense or another. If someone from another country watched this they would
probably think our government is ran by complete idiots and that half the time
they fool around and don’t employee the right people. They would also think
that there are people working for the government that are traders or spies.
I think the creators do a really good job at relating this to
their typical target audience. Sometimes the show gets a little boring when
Brian goes off on his own but then they bring it back by having him do
something really insane that gets himself into trouble. I personally enjoyed
watching the show and can’t wait for another season to come out.
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