Defense Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Patricia Campbell and her team of analysts wield the world's most advanced surveillance technology from headquarters in D.C.
The opening hour ends with an unexpected, big boom of a cliffhanger designed to bring viewers back for more. In that it's unique. Otherwise The Brave is broad-stroked and pro forma in highly volatile times both at home and abroad.
It's like a Colorforms version of Homeland, with cardboard heroes executing impossible missions while implacable boss lady Anne Heche delivers pompously obvious directives.
While the weekly missions will no doubt offer some white-knuckle situations putting all the characters in jeopardy, what's the point if we aren't made to immediately care about any of them?
There are so many other procedurals out there, why not have one about the military? We have the greatest military in the world, and we should celebrate them every chance we get.
There's no sophistication in the treatment of geopolitics or the wars in the Middle East, its characters are bland, and even the action sequences have nothing special to set them apart.
