EPISODE
SEASON
MacGyver - Season 1 (2016)
The series follows one of the staff of a clandestine organization within the U.S. government, relying on his unconventional problem solving skills to save lives.
19 September 1950, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
15 July 1971, Forest Hills, Queens, New York, USA
17 May 1974, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 January 1946, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
4 June 1972, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
September 23, 2016
CBS has owned Friday nights in recent years with a lineup of scripted originals that includes Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods. This reboot looks to be a pleasant way to start the lineup and the weekend.
September 22, 2016
Till may get more of a workout than Minnesota's Richard Dean Anderson did in the original series, but he needs better dialogue if he wants audiences to keep running with him.
September 23, 2016
The new MacGyver is an ill-conceived, sterile reimagining of a series that is such a product of its time that it shouldn't have been updated in the first place.
September 23, 2016
It is trying very, very hard to fit in. It has the right elements; what it hasn't yet quite figured out yet, though, is how to combine them into something that will be truly explosive.
September 23, 2016
If I were 10 years old, I'd probably love the new version of MacGyver.... As I am not 10 years old, alas, I have to say that the MacGyver reboot is that rare thing: a likable bore.
September 22, 2016
Till's got charm and his on-screen bromance with Eads is one of the few elements that actually works. But patience and bromances won't save this. A smart, compelling, up-to-date rethinking just might.
September 23, 2016
This one thinks borrowing the names and rushing through the wizardry is enough to bring back the warm fuzzies of that time Richard Dean Anderson's MacGyver made a defibrillator using nothing but candlesticks, a microphone cord... It's not hat easy.
September 23, 2016
It looks cheap (even though CBS decided to scrap the entire original pilot and make a new one), the action sequences are rote, the dialogue is mostly generic, and the characters are all one-dimensional.
