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I had high hopes for the new show Medical Investigations on NBC - but then I sat down and watched a pair of episodes with my wife. She was ranting at the TV the way I normally do when we are watching political pundits. Here's the problem - we've watched Discovery Health's Diagnosis: Unknown series.
What's the problem? Well, take the episode we just watched. The setup is a that a bunch of soldiers are sick - first theory, some kind of chemical/bio agent. Then they reveal that a bunch of nursing home patients are also sick, so scratch theory one. Then, it turns out that all of the victims are Catholic, and attend the same church. This is where things got silly. The lead investigator goes to the church, looking for connections between the victims. At this point, he suspects something in or around the church - so of course, he dips his hands in the holy water on his way in. It only got dumber from there
They track things down to a lay person, and go to his house. He's dead, in the basement. Is anyone wearing gloves or masks? No, it's only after they start poking around, finding rodent feces that they decide to do that (this generated a pause on the ReplayTV and a fair bit of ranting - not to mention the removal of the show from guaranteed status to optional status).
Did the producers even consider getting an expert adviser? There's also the fact that they just had to have that most annoying of devices, the irritating and irrelevant secondary plot line. Here's a tip for the writers - if the primary plot line is so bad that we need a secondary one to keep us watching - you have a problem. Sheesh.
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