Wisdom of the Crowd: Pilot

October 1, 2017 7:04 PM - Season 1, Episode 1

A Silicon Valley tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing platform for publicly shared information he is certain will find his daughter's killer and revolutionize crime solving in the process.

AV Club - Wisdom Of The Crowd is totally witless

posted by oh yeah! (7 comments total)

I'm not sure it was even worth posting a thread for this one, it wasn't entertainingly bad like "Inhumans", just bad-bad. Still, in case anyone else sat through it too, might as well have there be somewhere to commiserate.
posted by oh yeah! at 7:12 PM on October 1, 2017 [2 favorites]

Seems a bit like A.P.B., which also failed to present the application of this kind of technology as horrifying.

Richard T. Jones should know better.
posted by Pryde at 10:20 PM on October 1, 2017 [1 favorite]

I kinda liked it :/
posted by Clustercuss at 9:35 AM on October 2, 2017

I just want to know if the title is meant to be bitterly ironic
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:35 AM on October 2, 2017 [1 favorite]

I got to see the pilot during CBS's International Screenings, and it wasn't the trainwreck I expected it to be. I feel like it could be decent if they dive into exploring the problematic aspects of the concept, but I don't hold out much hope that they will.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 5:19 PM on October 2, 2017

I saw some of this at a bar with the sound off and thought Jeremy Piven was looking pretty good these days. Then I found out what it was about and screamed into a pillow. B+
posted by theodolite at 10:48 AM on October 3, 2017

It was a fine, by the numbers procedural, complete with a Rhys Darby-alike mascot dude. The evil part of this show is the subtle normalizing of bad trends. "We all gave up our privacy to watch cat videos on our phones" is such a WTF, complete with layers of question begging.
posted by rhizome at 5:53 PM on October 8, 2017