Angela's Eyes

OK, I admit it I was drawn in by the cute girl in the trailer. But that's never happened before. Well, OK, maybe with Buffy. and Alias. But they're great shows, so it's OK?



Well kinda, no. It's a bit irritating. Angela has this ability to read people and know when they are lying, so she can do what she wants? It's good to see main characters that are flawed, but sometimes she's just stupid!



Storylines seem a bit familiar. Got it wrong once before (will never happen again). Errant parents (read Alias). It just doesn't offer anything new. It feels like a cheap CSI - solve the case, but she's got a head-start on the audience because she 'knows' about liars.



Maybe I'm overdoing the criticism. It's only the pilot, and it ends with questions which may open into interesting stories... and after all, it does have the cute girl.

from the very first minutes of the pilot i was irritated because of the uncredible behaviour of most of the characters. starting with angela's entry of the cafe, the her misregarding of fbi guidelines, then the overreaction of the owner.

i was irritated by some of the most mindless dialogues or better: "monologues", f.i. when angela told her colleagues about "liars" in front of the courthouse.

furthermore the acting is bad: either abigail spencer is a miscast, or screenplay/scenario are faulty. the permanent need for action "angela: "its time to...." made me feel uncontent. it would habe appreciated a slower pace.

but maybe the next episodes will be better

Interesting pilot. I couldn’t look away for a sec. Abigail Spencer is both beautiful and talented. As Angela Henson, she is a human lie detector for the FBI trying to crack cases they can’t. In the pilot she investigates the mysterious disappearance (or death) of Maggie Phillips married to Andy Phillips. Pretty unpredictable pilot too. Everyone seems to think Andy killed his wife. Angela is sure he’s lying about something just isn’t sure what. Then we see Andy likes to visit escort places and Angela and her team see her with a young girl and don’t know what to think.



Meanwhile we get to know Angela and she is to say the least carrying baggage. It seems her parents are ex-CIA traitors thrown in prison for selling secrets. She visits her Dad in prison but it’s not a warm reunion. Angela is very angry with him even though she is doing very well for herself today. Likewise Angela is very paranoid and doesn’t let people get close to her. She gets a boyfriend named Peter but ends up bugging him. The relationship almost ends but Angela starts to open up more.



Anyways this was a very decent pilot. Angela’s history is torn from one side to the next but I couldn’t be help but be fascinated and like the character. It seems others like the pilot which is nice to hear. Anyhow you can catch “Angela’s Eyes” on Lifetime.

I liked it and all but it wasnt excatly what I would have thought it would be, Not that it was bad but I think the reason I wasnt extatic with it was I wanted to know more about Angela, but I do know that, that isnt what the show is revolved around (her life) its about the mysteries her and her team solve. and I really liked the mystery in this episode because I went in thinking he killed her later I changed my mind thinking the other girl killed her and it turned out she wasnt even dead and the other girl was her girl.

Okay, well, maybe that sounded a bit too negative.



The reason I was looking forward to this show, and the bigger part of the pilot episode, was because of Angela. The headshots you see everywhere in the advertisements for this show are definitely worth staring at for five minutes or more at a time. Same goes for her appearance in the show, there's just one little big thing that irks me about her. She has this attitude, this need for wanting people to know that she knows a liar when she sees one. "Hey Angela, how did you know that?" "I know it when someone lies. I always do." No need to get all "I'm so cool!" on us. Same goes for the explanations. Really, there is no need for us to know that trigger pullers tighten their grip on the gun, and their eyes narrow, and their legs bend and their ears sweat. It's a nice tidbit of info if it's actually true, but it's of no use if the rest of the show is dull at best.



I have nothing against black people, but once again, we have a black costar who just emits the message "I can't act, they just put me in here to be the black guy."



Or the little geeky kid. Come on. Why form a trio if the third guy is nothing more than an amputated third leg?



For all I know the show is just too complicated for me. Too grown up. Aimed at adults. I don't know, it just didn't work for me.





I am tempted to say that they should have made an hour and a half pilot episode, but I am not sure that would have helped a lot.

All in all, this wasn\\\'t a half bad episode, for a pilot. However, I did feel as though the episdoe was somewhat forced, not so much in the acting, but in the script itself. I did notice that they spent a lot of time on the fact that her parents were spies and were now in prison. With the amount of time spent on that, they LIGHTLY toyed with the issues Angela faces with her new boyfriend, Peter. I also felt as though they really didn\\\'t invstigate the whole disappeance of Maggie Phillips. To me, it seems like they spent a whole five minutes with the investigation, switched to her parents for the better part of the episode, then all of a sudden Maggie is alive. Maybe I\\\'ve been watching too much SVU or something, because it seems to me like they weren\\\'t really investigating. They chose a path and it led them in the right way, instead of running into a few more problems along the way. They only investigated Maggie\\\'s husband instead of looking at other possibilities.



Personally, I think if they had a two hour pilot, things would have been a lot better. They would have been able to focus on the investigation (maybe taken a little more time instead of the, what, couple days it took and the random \\\"hey, I checked this out on a whim and I think we\\\'re right\\\"), as well as play with the idea of her parents in prison, along with her new boyfriend.



For right now, I\\\'m willing to take another shot at this show, however, I must say that I miss MISSING at this time slot. I do like how they showed that Angela does have a personal life, but I think they played with it a little too much. Angela (and Nicole and Jess) are FBI Agents, however I didn\\\'t get the feeling like she really was one. I liked how they showed a little bit of personal life in Missing, but mainly focused on the case at hand. This show, however, seems to be the exact opposite. They focused a lot on personal life, and lightly on the case.

I absolutely loove this show and it looks good. I tuned in and watch the pilot. I guess it was okay. But trust issues have something to do with her parents who were spies. Which hurts her relationship with her new boyfriend. She tries to solve the mysterious disappearance of a woman.



All evidence points to the husband, whom is suspected of cheating. More suspects are investigated when they find motives for them to kill her. But they find out that the woman is not really not dead. They find also that the woman is trying to take money from her husband.



I guess you can say Angela is a very smart person. She calls her ability a "gift". Well if you can call it that. But the fact is that her parents were revealed as spies and imprisoned. She pays for the sins of her parents by having trust issues and not being able to trust people.



Overall, it was a good pilot episode. I recommend this to everyone who are into suspense shows. I give it four and a half thumbs up.

Frankly, I expected a lot more out of this show. It seemed somewhat original, and the whole \"I can tell when you\'re lying\" thing promised interesting plotlines to come. I guess I would describe this episode as \'trying too hard.\' Some plot twists were predictable, and others just seemed to be there for the sake of being shocking and unexpected. To me, the episode was exhausting to watch purely because of insanely much they attempted to pack into a single hour. Now, I know that pilots are supposed to draw the audience in for more, but I definitely think they overdid it with this one. It just became hard to follow with all the different things going on. And all the different things she observed while \"reading\" people were bordering on irritating.

I was a bit dubious given the bad reviews but I do like how this is shaping up. True, it does overload a bit on the exposition like Angela's parents and her gifts but the structure was interesting. I thought it would open with a flashback showing the arrest of the parents but waiting until midway to reveal it was a good touch.



Spencer is good as Angela, better than most have said. She does show the drawback in knowing when people lie, that she can't get close to people and he relationship with this new boyfriend is rather interesting and I hope it develops well.



The actual mystery was nice. Like Angela, I didn't see it coming that the wife and the "daughter" were lovers as well and the husband's attempt to kill them was good too.



What I also didn't see was the bigger mystery involving the truth behind Angela's parents, which looks to develop more as the season goes.



So a bit rough but then many pilots are and I hope this improves. Spencer is good so maybe Angela is worth looking at more.