"Limitless" Brian Finch's Black Op (TV Episode 2015) Poster

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(2015)

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8/10
Funny in a serious way
Miles-105 November 2015
"Brian Finch's Black Op" (rhymes with "Ferris Buehler's Day Off"-well, sorta) is the reason I am glad that I didn't stop watching this show. While other new covert TV series this year take themselves too seriously, "Limitless" has not. This was particularly funny, as anyone who has seen the Matthew Broderick classic will attest.

On the other hand, the story does deal with serious business (I almost said, serious COMPANY business). There are echoes of other movies such as "The Treasure of Sierra Madre." The last exchange between Brian and Rebecca underscores how deadly serious the story is. This is not just about coming of age but loss of innocence.
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10/10
Save Brian! Very funny episode!
kjnyr4 November 2015
Any millennials watching this may completely miss why this is one of the funniest episodes of any TV series watched this year so far. In my household the Baby Boomers, Gen Xer and Millennial have all been subjected to multiple viewings of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and that set the foundation for much laughter watching Brian Finch's Black Op. We've seen homages to Ferris before, but somehow this one fit perfectly. We love when a drama steps out of the formula and has some fun. See the original CSI and also Supernatural for how to do it right. From the first minute when we realized what direction the episode was taking to the last hysterical second we were all engaged. The attention to detail, so funny. We had to pause the DVR again and again so as not to miss anything over the laughing and the giddy cries of "OMG, did you get that?!?!"
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3/10
Great link to Ferris Bueller, massively poor premise
brentbruning9 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
How this started was great. They needed to have him have a really good Ferris Bueller day off and create an amazing day that backfires on him. Instead, a black op team borrows him and places him in a jungle to um help find the bad guy? This was sooo far fetched that it made me seriously doubt if I wanted to continue to watch series. I could even see the actors cringing at some of the parts to make up for such contrived writing. The whole basis of the series is to keep it real but allow for limitless thinking that gives us a real possibility for our own lives. There is nothing credible about the CIA kidnapping him, then feeding him pills for, of all things, to find a terrorist when the black ops team was flawed. How did they know of Brian Finch? Bad guys. And I mean the writers here, no the characters. Please make your premises real.It's a great series. Take some time and don't mess this great series up or rely on Finch to pull off terrible implausible story lines.
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