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Pure Genius - Season 1
The series centers on a young Silicon Valley tech-titan who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting an amazingly tech-forward hospital that cherry-picks challenging cases and treats patients free of charge.
28 August 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 July 1964, Columbia, Missouri, USA
9 August 1972, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
26 May 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 January 1969, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
17 September 1987
11 January 1981, Colombia
October 27, 2016
he script is assembled from cliches, some so hokey the actors seem to have trouble keeping straight faces. The plot rarely holds together, and the technology is more new age (a real-life "Vulcan mind meld"?) than cutting age.
October 27, 2016
By relying on the predictable emotional manipulation that accompanies life-threatening situations to deliver its drama, the series is forgoing the opportunity to build characters with personalities and in turn pull real emotion from them.
October 28, 2016
Good hitters strike out, too, and Katims has whiffed very badly here.
October 28, 2016
I have no idea what happened in the making of Pure Genius, but it is impossible to tell that Katims was involved, on the level of performance or intelligence.
October 26, 2016
Marred by the usual hospital prime-time melodramatics, Pure Genius is still a compelling idea matched to a superior cast.
October 27, 2016
Whenever Bell pressed an index finger to his lips shortly before dispensing some medical wisdom about which he has no medical training to draw upon, I wanted to slap his hand from his mouth and say, "Scram, jerk!"
October 28, 2016
This medical drama is absurd in every possible way, but the fake medical devices and treatments it comes up with are amusing enough to give the proceedings some zing.
