so Brilliant Minds got cancelled, as I had suspected. I can't put my finger on what doesn't work with the show for me, but it's something with the pacing and the characters. I don't care much for any of them, even Wolf who on paper should really be my type of character. he's excentric and socially awkward/incompetent, but not in an interesting way like Sherlock or House. it's like they want him to be that kind of character while also being likeable in a way that leaves him in a weird middle-ground. I don't dislike him, I just don't enjoy him the way I want to with a main character. I also don't think most of the characters have much in the way of chemistry. Josh and Oliver did, and Ericka and Dana do (platonically), but aside from that... meh.
that aside, I think finding a big enough audience for what looks like an expensive show like this is likely hard. it's a medical drama which is very popular, but also very gay and with certain kind of niche conditions in focus. I could be wrong, but I imagine a lot of the regular medical drama audience will not tune in because of the gay, and a lot of people who like the gay will not tune in because of the focus on the medical stuff. I almost didn't and haven't watched the second season largely due to that. I want more focus on the gay or at least enjoy the other stuff a lot more. I don't really care for the process of medical cases being solved. I mean I watched House, but House and his messed up relationships carries that show in a way Oliver doesn't come close to. there's also something about the misrepresentation of certain conditions that annoys me (while I'm also aware that most medical conditions are probably portrayed incorrectly in ways that I'm ignorant of). like with Wolf's facial blindness that is made as if he literally can't see faces, rather than simply not recognizing them. instead of blurring people's faces, they should have made them into that generic "the average man/woman" kind of image. or Vance's mirror-touch synesthesia where at some point he feels someones pain without consciously knowing they are in pain, which is not how it works. mirror-touch is not some kind of magical Will Graham-level empathy. it's also ridiculous because how did a guy who's that crippled by his mirror-touch even get through med school?
