Profiler (tv) . The Boston Phoenix . 12-01-97

Profiler (tv)

DIRECTED BY: Hannibal Lector

REVIEWED: 12-01-97

Profiler is a rather perverse attempt to duplicate the popularity of The X-Files and such gruesome films as The Silence of the Lambs. The main character is supernaturally gifted at tracking serial killers (one per week) and is being stalked herself by a psycho (in a continuing storyline). She reacts the same way every time she finds a dead body: a furrowed brow (as if she couldn't remember where she put her keys), followed by her "vision" of how the murder took place. All this high-concept drama needs is a police sergeant who cries "I see nothing!" at every crime scene. A year later, Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed that the tortured-heroine premise worked better in the realm of outright fantasy.

Taken from The Boston Phoenix's "50 Years and Counting," a retrospective of the most influential programs from television's first half-century. Click here for the full article.

--Robert David Sullivan

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