Found is NBC drama show staring the beautiful actress Shanola Hampton as Gabi Mosely, Gabi Mosely is played by two actresses, Azaria Carter as teen Gabi, and Shanola Hampton as current Gabi.
The show tell us the story of Gabi Mosely abduction in flashback, and shows us that she manged to held her kidnapper as her own lapdog in the basement or something lol.
My problem with the show is that it's hard for me to fear for Gabi as a teen knowing that she eventually survived and triumphed, so, why would I care about things could've happened but I know it wouldn't happen anyway, maybe if they focused on another character that was kidnapped with her and we don't know how they ended, maybe then we can get attached emotionally with such character, but no, Gabi is the main focus in past and present.
Gabi end up with opening her own firm to find lost kids, some of her group suffered from losing their children too, but since it happened in the past too, and we don't connect with such character and feel the magnitude of the loss they faced, it also came up as flat, I mean, we can barely connect with the characters on the human level to care about them, let alone caring about their loss.
The problem with the cases Gabi take to find lost people, is that we only know about the victims after they get kidnapped, it we feel what the one took the case feel, not what the victim feels, which also water down the situation, it would be way much better if the episode started with the victims doing something we all do, like shopping, hanging out with their friends, then disappear, and replace the parts of Gabi as a teen, not because it's bad, but because it's ineffective as a flashback scenes, and would be much better if it was in real-time, it's good that they used the flashback scenes to serve the story go forward tho, where the past effect the future.
There is a scene from episode 7, we see the grandmother of the victim speak about how her granddaughter disappeared, like why don't you show us what happened instead of telling us afterwards?
I mean, at least they gave us an old photo of the victim, now it will feel personal!!
It's not really hard to make emotional story about such topic, all you have to do is to speak to people in real life who went through such tragedy, know the circumstances of the case, then show it to us on screen, other than that, we see such cases the same way cops see it, as a case number, someone come to report a missing person case, while if we see what happened before they won't became a number, they will be a relative or a friend the cop interacted with, and finding them is personal to him.
So, my question is, who should I care about? is it the main heroes who barely face any danger, is it the family of the missing person who we barely know, and report their missing loved ones in dry emotionless way, or the victims who we barely see towards the end of the episode!!
Now with the fake tension situations, like in the episode they question Charlie Rutledge played by Daniel Baldock, who is suspect in kidnapping his pregnant girlfriend Denae Wagon played by Emily Alabi, and the one question him with like, you have to talk or you gonna face the heroes, I mean, what are they gonna do? drown him in the toilet till he speaks, or Gabi gonna take him as human pet too!! It just seem like an empty threat that absolutely means nothing.
And BTW, the evil guy helping Gabi isn't that smart, he speaks more like a psychic and less like a psycho lol.
The ending of episode 7 was really good tho, I liked it, you should check it out.
I hope the show be more engaging over time, as the premise is actually good, I like the actors in the show too, they are making a good job, they just give more room to the people who they should save from danger, they are what the story about after all..
