Had a post-episode discussion with my teenager. They think the show should've drawn out the Volchek storyline more and had a better payout, instead of how they quickly resolved it and started a new case. There should've been more fallout from Meachum not telling his team about his tumor and putting them in danger. The task force leader should've died or at least been in the ICU after Volchek stabbed him, and Meachum should've had to lead the task force and have more problems about it. One of Finau's kids should've died when they ran into Volchek's partner at the bomb site. In the early episodes, they killed someone on the task force too quickly, before we even knew him or cared about them, and since then there's been no actual serious collateral damage.
Since Meacham was having a migraine during the Volchek chase, he shouldn't have magically been able to make the shot. He should've missed, Volchek should've gotten away again and managed to blow up one of the trucks.
We didn't even fucking get an exploding toilet, ffs. At least Lethal Weapon felt like it had STAKES.
Kiddo says they don't care about the current case, because the writers are doing all the interesting parts off screen and focusing too much on the romantic relationships. Also, a plot where the president is being targeted by a terrorist is not intriguing enough when the current irl president is who he is, and we don't care about the fake gavin newsom, either.
Overall, the writers did not have the chops to pull off anything interesting. They let suspense opportunities fizzle impotently, and stretched their ensemble storytelling so thin it was superficial.
Amber can get shot and put the task force out of its misery, tbh. Idc. I can't believe we wasted 10 weeks on this fucking pointless show.