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thank you, someone finally said it. i don't watch cop or law dramas, but when this premiered, i tuned in. it was fresh and clever. it explored some real life applications of some great mathematical theories. it was a a valiant attempt. however, it's long since lost that touch, and resorted to every trite cop storyline.

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I think it went downhill when they added Diane Farr to the mix. She's not a very good actress yet gets so much screen time and her nasal, whiny voice drives me crazy. I stopped watching within a few episodes of her joining the otherwise talented cast.

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I've never liked the show. Neither the premise nor the cast (save Ballard whom I still call "Herbal Thought" from his Dark Angel character).

Numbers, 7th Heaven, Smallville and Medium are shows I'll never be caught dead watching.
Unless I'm being tortured or something.

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I think the show went downhill when they added that nasal, whiny Diane Farr. She is a lousy actress yet gets more screen time than Rob Morrow. Her voice drives me insane - stopped watching after her addition.

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Sorry, but there's nothing Numb3rs can do that will make it worse than the reality show crap like American Idol and Big Brother that the networks would like to fill the schedules with. Real scripted shows are rarer than rocking horse shit so I'm glad we can hold onto something like this.

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All shows go through "ups and downs", maintaining the edge is hard and can wear down an audience. I think you're being a bit hard on Numb3ers

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And here I was waiting for you to comment on the mini-reunion of "The Wire" in the last episode. This casting director must LOVE HBO series.

I can take or leave Numb3rs, but that's always been the case. And yes, it's a cop show with the same old plots; there are only so many basic stories: Sex, murder, revenge. It's been that way for centuries. They just have a novel way of getting to the "solution."

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Sorry to disagree with everyone, but I still really like this show. I do wish Judd Hirsch would have more of a storyline, he needs to have a romance in his life so he can stop living vicariously through Don and Charlie. But it is still a very good show. I have stopped watching CSI Miami because every show starts out the same, with some club music, beautiful and rich people in clubs or in the sun, and then the murder takes place. Yada, yada, yada. I do hope Peter McNichol returns,but the show is still a very good Friday night watch.

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I have gotten bored with the show too... but why should CBS try harder? What are you going to watch? ANOTHER cop drama (L&O) on NBC?

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I agree that Numbers started the downhill slide the minute Dianne Farr joined the cast. Now that she's pregnant (just take a look at the "inventive" ways they are trying to hide her behind walls and file folders) they should take the opportunity to replace her in the cast. Sabrina Lloyd was much better.

Basically they've run out of interesting stories to tell and the math comes too easily. It's become a standard cop proceedural.

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I think everybody is right about numb3rs. It is hard for any show especially a show that is like csi to stay fresh and enjoyable. I think it will do better hopefully because I really think the actors seem talented.

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I think every show has it's ups and downs. You can't expect day in and day out to get amazing stories. It's people like you Mr Tommey that get shows cancelled. Take the oc for example it had a rockey third season and all the critics like you came out and started bashing the show and now its gone in a week. As for numb3rs it will get better next season with Larry back and the whole story line of why diana farr left the fbi for a while. If You rally love a show you stick with it during its highs and its lows.

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I just watched the latest episode and it had to be the most boring show I'd ever watched. It was written from the journal of cliched TV.

I really loved this show so my disappointment is acute. I thought Charlie was a great character the combination of a cold mathematical mind with the naive boyishness was charming. His crush on his student was cute. His interactions with his family were the best on TV. His occasional boyish and awkward flirtations with a pretty guest star were magical. Then they relegated Alan and Don to these stiff predictable roles. I don't fault Diane Farr, I just think her start in the show coincided with the changed focus of the show. They married Charlie off to his student who was turned almost overnight into one of the top mathematicians in the country but whose on screen personality is still slow and wooden. Finally created a Charlie who is dull, sexless and boring.

I only watched the show, faults and all, because Charlie was such a wonderful character and related to the others in a fresh and original way. Now that he's gone the show is incredibly boring and disjointed.

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I think numb3rs is still a interesting show. They have a good cast of talented actors. I think it is hard to come up with storylines and it is even harder to try to fill up a person who was a part of the show before with someone new. If David Krumholtz left the show and they put someone else as charlie I would definitely stop watching it for sure.

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Wow. Only a few episodes sans-Larry and you're already throwing in the towel? I think that he and Charlie are the characters who make the show more than just another cop show. Where else can you get a nonsensical lecture on the planetary whosiwhatsits and black hole doodads that ends up making absolutely no sense in the end anyway but it still makes you laugh like a maniac? Just hold out until Larry comes back (if he does, I suppose). I think he is what makes the show great. Charlie is the math guy, Don is the cop guy, Judd Hirch (whose character name I don't remember) is the advice guy. Larry is the eccentric guy who we love because there is no one quite like him.
I'm still counting on Larry.
-M

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It's a shame you choose last week to quit reviewing this show - and even more of a shame that nobody at WIN picked up the slack.

This week's episode was one of the best. It not only brought Don's issues to the forefront and almost to a resolution, it also showcased the talents of virtually every other character in an incredibly tense episode that threw out the usual formula and tried something very different.

Sorry your audience missed hearing anything about it.

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I think Diane Farr is sexy sexy sexy.. even pregnant, & the show is still my favorite part of saturday night.

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I can't help but disagree with all the negative comments.... TV is dumbing down in ways that really disturb me. I'll support any TV show that makes me google deconvolution algorithms.

And, as has been said before, cop shows are the hardest things to keep fresh. There are only so many ways to make crime fresh.

Lori

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I don't think it has to do with the characters at all; it has to do with the writing. The first two seasons were all about numbers, with perhaps a show or two that did not really make it about numbers. Now, it is about story lines, and flat characters.

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Personally I like numb3rs. It is hard to keep a show fresh especially after one season which is why most shows don't last as long as friends did it's rare. I think the actors are great at least the guy who plays charlie seems to be and larry of course. In the end I prefer scripted shows over reality garbage.

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