Intelligence, brings the ultimate covert agent to the tech world. Josh Holloway’s Gabriel makes every other cyber show look like they are on an AOL dial-up.
Today at the San Diego Comic-Con, the pilot of Intelligence was screened to hundreds of attendees.
Starring Lost‘s Josh Holloway and Once Upon a Time‘s Meghan Ory, there were high hopes for the new CBS spy drama, but did it live up to the hype?
The show centers around a covert government agency that uses the technology most can only dream of. Rather than create a robot, they created a man with a chip in his head (Josh Holloway’s Gabriel), who is the ultimate weapon.
He is backed up by his former secret service bodyguard played by Meghan Ory, and his agency leader played by Marg Helgenberger.
The show has something of a Person of Interest meets Sherlock vibe, in the way that it embraces the ever-changing face of the technology that surrounds us, showing us everything from surveillance cameras to the vast resources of the Internet, and then analyzing it in a hyper-intuitive way.
But unlike Person of Interest, the show has a more balanced male and female cast, faster pace, and a snarkier banter between the leading cast members. Fans of Lost, CSI, and Once Upon a Time will not be disappointed. To say that the audience went wild at the end is not an understatement.
Discussed in a recent interview with EW:
“We wanted to do a modern day Six Million Dollar Man, but we kept asking ourselves the question of ‘What matters?’ Does super strength really matter anymore in a world where people push a button and a drone five miles up kills them?” says series executive producer Michael Seitzman.
“It doesn’t matter anymore how strong you are physically. There’s another set of superpowers that seem to be popping up on the news every day, and that is a whole series of direct neural implants. It’s not really science fiction anymore. If it is, it’s five minutes in the future not five years into the future.”
Their effort, at least with the Comic-Con audience, succeeded. We will look forward to watching Intelligence when it premieres February 24 2014, airing at 10/9c on CBS.