EPISODE
SEASON
FBI - Season 1
The series takes after criminologists from New York FBI and their day by day work from those energizing cases that they need to manage. In the first story, two specialists Maggie Bell and Omar Adon Zidan have a case to illuminate about a bomb blast.
1 January 1980, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
31 July 1976, Independence, Missouri, USA
5 November 1976, New York City, New York, USA
September 25, 2018
The CBS series may be set in New York, but its subject matter has a much wider resonance.
September 24, 2018
CBS has a good history with abbreviations ("CSI," "NCIS"), but creatively speaking, "FBI" is DOA.
September 25, 2018
As always, the show is brilliantly cast (putting Missy Peregrym at the FBI's center suggests Wolf has found his new Mariska Hargitay), perfectly paced, and solidly constructed.
September 25, 2018
The series by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is a fast-paced drama that's engaging and timely but still polished and slick enough to deliver the type of escapist entertainment Law & Order fans recognize.
September 25, 2018
As original as its title implies, Dick Wolf's all-business FBI at least delivers on its promise, like any solidly produced CBS procedural.
September 25, 2018
I admire that it's exactly what it purports to be, exactly what you'd expect from it based on its title and basic premise and its creative pedigree.
September 25, 2018
Given that it hits all the familiar Law & Order beats, the success of FBI is contingent on the charisma of its two leads, and the first episode does little to convince that Maggie Bell is even playing the same sport as Olivia Benson.
September 25, 2018
Skip it, if Dick Wolf procedurals put you to sleep. However, if you're a fan, this one is completely in your wheelhouse.
September 24, 2018
Don't worry, Rest of the Country: New York is seething with lots of tensions, racial and otherwise, but it's a hell of a lot nicer - and more interesting, beautiful and exciting - than portrayed in FBI's pilot.
September 25, 2018
The drama's explosions are harrowing, and the score adds an appropriate amount of dread to the grim investigation.