CBS TV series Scorpion is the thrilling answer to the question "what happens when a group of spergs are charged with saving the world once a week?" Hacking savant Walturd O'Brien rolls deep and hard with his crew of high IQ, low social skills virgins - fat mathematician Sylvesturd, annoying engineer Flappy and gobby head shrinker Tobyjugs. Holding it all together are normie scum FBI agent Cabe Gallo and Paige the waitress whose main function is to make the coffee and not have sex with Walturd.
Plausibility? It had none. Scientific credibility? Not a shred. Deviation from stock character templates and plots? None of the above. And yet Scorpion remained a strangely watchable guilty pleasure. TV critic James Donaghy is your guide through the first season of this odd nugget, ushering you through ticking bomb set pieces, car chases and spectacularly inert sexual tension between the cast.
PLEASE do not read if you dislike puerile humour, have any common decency or concern for your fellow man. This will not be your thing. The rest of you scumbags: have at it.
Plausibility? It had none. Scientific credibility? Not a shred. Deviation from stock character templates and plots? None of the above. And yet Scorpion remained a strangely watchable guilty pleasure. TV critic James Donaghy is your guide through the first season of this odd nugget, ushering you through ticking bomb set pieces, car chases and spectacularly inert sexual tension between the cast.
PLEASE do not read if you dislike puerile humour, have any common decency or concern for your fellow man. This will not be your thing. The rest of you scumbags: have at it.
