Sunday, January 02, 2011
Numb3rs 6
Whether or not the FBI in reality uses higher Mathematics to solve crime this series attempted to make it look real. The young Jewish Doctor left Alaska and became the buff leader of a team of FBI Agents assisted by his Genius Mathematics Professor little brother who still lives at home with Daddy. With the cutaways in which Charlie explains the arcane niceties of higher math it was never quite clear whether this was a crime drama or an apology for the Philosophy of Mathematics. With Peter MacNicol playing his rather loopy colleague the absentminded professor stereotype is well reinforced. Of the members of the team the quiet but solid Colby Granger played by Dylan Bruno has always been a favourite. Judd Hirsch playing the brother’s retired city planner father replays the role he had as Jeff Goldblum’s father in Independence Day.
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