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NBC seems to be putting a lot of its hopes on "Blindspot" (Monday, 9 p.m., Ch. 5), and I can't figure out why.
If you've watched the network for more than 30 seconds in the past few weeks, you've no doubt seen an advertisement for the show. NBC is pushing "Blindspot" hard.
It's not a terrible show, but it's not a particularly good one. Or, at least, it doesn't get off to a scintillating start by any means.
A beautiful woman (Jaimie Alexander, "Thor") is found naked in a bag in Times Square. She has no memories, and she's covered in tattoos that are clues to a variety of plots and crimes. Oh, and she has almost superhero fighting powers, which prove to be of great assistance to FBI agent Kurt Well — whose name is tattooed on her back.
It looks and feels very much like another NBC series, "The Blacklist." And that show's ratings plummeted last season. Even though a lot of that fall can be attributed to the move from Mondays to Thursdays, you've got to wonder what the upside is to having another such show on the schedule.
After watching the first hour, I didn't feel like I'd entirely wasted a piece of my life. But I also felt no particular desire to watch a second episode.