Have you been watching Chaos? It’s an interesting failure on CBS that is still possibly worth watching and it’s on tonight, the graveyard known as Friday night TV. One of the problems I have when watching TV is that I often fall for what a show can be and get upset when it never quite arrives there. There are more shows than I can count where I started watching because of a cool concept or a great setup and a couple months down the road, I start wondering why I’m still watching it. My fear is that Chaos is going to turn into one of those shows. So, what is it? Never mind…
Rick Martinez (Freddy Rodriguez) is a brand new CIA hire. He’s spent his entire life training and studying to become a CIA agent and is very excited to finally be in. But when he meets with his new boss, CIA Director Higgins, he finds out that the CIA cut his job. But Higgins offers Rick a job, but he needs to be a MOLE in CAOS (Clandestine Administration and Oversight Services), a group of on the ground, fight the bureaucracy agents who prefer to do things the old way (aka. wacky cover stories and on the ground investigations instead of computers and negotiations). Rick accepts and slowly finds his way with the team.
Rick’s new partners include: Michael Dorset, a psychologist and tactics leader, Billy Collins, who has previously worked for the British Secret Service and Casey Malick, who is low-key and almost lazy, but when needed can turn into a human weapon. The group messes with Rick and end up turning him to their side, against Higgins and the bureaucracy that hamstrings the CIA from doing good in the world.
The show seems like it’s an action comedy, but somewhere along the line, the comedy went missing. It seems like this would be a great match with Chuck
