EPISODE
SEASON
MacGyver - Season 1 (2016)
Young Angus 'Mac' MacGyver, a resourceful former special forces operative is recruited into a clandestine organization to use his extraordinary talents for problem solving and his extensive knowledge of science to save lives.
24 January 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 May 1932, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
13 July 1958
7 October 1986, Dallas, Texas, USA
12 September 1960, Tainan, Taiwan
25 April 1950, Queens, New York, USA
8 July 1983, Miami, Florida, USA
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'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.
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
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 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
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.
