CBS smart new Scorpion borrows from networks best
The Big Bang Theory is the No. 1 comedy on TV; the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchise has run so long, its piled up almost as many corpses as viewers.
At last, CBS mashes its two greatest hits into one show: Scorpion, about a group of nerds who team to fight the greatest techno threats.
Allegedly inspired by a true story, the leads of Scorpion, Elyes Gabel (Body of Proof) and Katharine McPhee (Smash), even resemble Big Bang stars Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. (Gabel is buffer; McPhee, brunette).
As the bland-sounding Walter OBrien, Gabel leads a team of socially broken toys.
As a boy, he hacked into NASA, and his subsequent experiences with law enforcement specifically federal agent Cabe Gallo (Robert Patrick, best remembered as the unstoppable cyborg from Terminator 2) left him smoldering with resentment over a number that edges out his 197 IQ a body count of 200 innocents.
But he and his pals Toby Curtis (Eddie Kaye Thomas, American Pie), a behavioral expert who can predict anyones behavior, Happy Quinn (Jadyn Wong, Being Erica), an engineering buff, and Sylvester Dodd (Ari Stidham), a mathematical wizard are floundering.
Walter breaks up with a woman in a diner by referring to a decision tree hes scratched out on paper to help her with her feelings.
Youre so a million miles from normal, she says.
Its there he crosses paths with waitress Paige (McPhee), who has a gifted but uncommunicative son.
When Cabe barges back into his life, Walter isnt even ready to be Facebook friends.
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