Customer Reviews
Category: Stupid and unartistic 
2008-05-20
I was so incredibly bored by this remake of an already boring TV series that I about wanted to shoot myself for wasting the time to watch it!!
Bionic Woman- volume one review 
2008-05-18
The only problem I had with the new bionic woman is the fact that it had been compared too much to the original and never really had a chance to grow thanks to a bunch of union idiots that got greedy. I for one have watched every episode on nbc.com and was hooked. Yes the show did change hands with writers and producers, and hardly had time to grow an audience when the plug, though not yet confirmed was pulled. I do hope that nbc will give this exceptional series another chance, and if not at least let the rest of us get a chance to see the final episodes. Michelle ryan and the rest of the cast did a great job and it's sad to see yet another real series be thrown onto the fire.
If Watched Objectively........ 
2008-05-11
I was a huge fan of The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man...sooooI was excited and skeptical about this show being made. However, I purchased the DVD set and then read the reviews. I agree with some of the reviewers about the problem this series faced. The comparison to the original, the lack of continuity, etc. However, I feel this show is being way to harshyl judged. While I can see the problems of this show, I feel that in time the kinks would have been worked out....there were only 8 episodes from what I can tell and find out and the chemistry between all the characters was spot on right out of the gate. I feel it would have only got better. The show was still finding its legs when the strike happened. How long could this show have gone? That is anyone's guess, but if the strike had not happened, I certainly think it would have continued for several years. I personally enjoy seeing Sarah, she, to me, is much more colorful and 3 dimensional than the other characters....I just have to say, over all, I am glad that I bought this set, I would have continued watching the show based on what I have seen and watched objectively, I don't think anyone could disagree with this.
I loved this show 2008-05-05
While this incarnation of the classic story was apparently met with less than shining critical review, an ill timed writers strike, and at least one of my friends felt it was predictable, I very much enjoyed the show and wish that the first season had been completed. I would recommend this series to anyone who enjoys engaging personalities set in a complicated web of high tech, science fiction, and covert story lines.
A Brit says.... 2008-05-05
Having started here in the UK about 6 weeks ago, The Bionic Woman has delivered some of the highest viewing figures for ITV2 (the channel who show the programme).
I get the issues with the storylines - fractured and in many cases unfulfilled, however I also thoroughly enjoy it.
Since Michelle Ryan stepped out onto the streets of Walford in Eastenders (a UK soap) some 10 years ago, she has been eminently watchable and I was very very impressed with her handling of the American accent. She gave the piece a real grounding and I really hope she goes on to bigger and better things.
Maybe it is just national pride, but its good to see her and Matthew Ryhs (Brothers & Sisters) play American so well that you almost forget that they are British.
Thanks you our American pals for givings us this series.
A Very Badly Written TV Show; A Big Let-Down 2008-07-16
Don't bother with this. BIONIC WOMAN failed miserably for obvious reasons, reasons that had nothing to do with the 2007 writer's guild strike:
Michelle Ryan is very pretty, but she does not have the acting style or stage presence of a physically dynamic, athletic action hero. She belongs in comedies and historical soap operas. The only dynamic female presence on the show was Katee Sackhoff, and she was playing a villain! It's not a good sign when viewers clamor to see less of the heroine and more of the villainess!
All of the support characters were repulsive. There was no one to root for. The younger sister (who looked, ridiculously, like she could almost be Ryan's age; why didn't they hire an actual 14-year-old?) was an annoying brat. The boss was cold, harsh, dark, and cynical. The scientist/surgeon boyfriend was a liar. The company she worked for was a creepy paramilitary group based on Blackwater, that everyone was hearing bad things about in the news. Why watch a TV show featuring nasty characters you hope will soon be arrested by the proper authorities?
The show was dark, ugly, didn't have enough action, and too much RAIN. I want to see admirable, sympathetic lead characters in a weekly adventure TV show, even though flawed. But combine a bland lead actress with an overpowering female co-star, unexciting SFX, unappealing support characters, an amoral story structure, and zig-zagging show direction, and don't be shocked when viewers abandon it by the millions. Which they did. Once they got rid of Sackhoff, they didn't even have good villains, and villains are what make a superhero story.
Recycle This One 
2008-06-28
This show was like a love child between the Scarecrow and the Tin Man from "Wizard of Oz": lacking both a heart and a brain. The first ten minutes--perhaps the most critical--seemed forced and rushed, and most of the plot developments afterwards I could see coming a mile away. The only redeeming quality of this show was Katee Sackhoff (AKA Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica - Season One), but she isn't enough to save this one.
What a lost opportunity 2008-06-18
I new saw any of the hype that led up to the broadcast of the new "Bionic Woman" so I didn't have a lot of expectations sitting down to watch the DVD. I Had the opposite actually given the negative press the show received. The critics weren't wrong.
It's not that "Bionic Woman" is bad TV. It's just so-so and it's flaws are so obvious that one has to wonder about the arrogance of the producers for not creating a better show.
"Bionic Woman" doesn't know what it wants to be and it squanders any sense of tension or drama.
There are times it's a drama and then there are these awkward moments when it slips into humor. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't. When Jamie's boss comments that he wants a sound proofed office because Jamie has listened in on a private conversation it brings on a chuckle because it's real and true. When Jamie, like a bratty teenager, is complaining about her privacy and her boss acts like a father it's just not funny, it's downright annoying. Maybe the producers were trying to attract the female teen market with this approach, but it really helps to kill the show.
The plot device of Sarah Corvus helps destroy the tension and drama. The unknown is always scarier and more ominous than the known. In the 3rd or 4th episode Corvus is wheeled down a hallway strapped to a hand cart and passes Jamie Summers. Right then I knew it was over for me. Corvus was being introduced as a threat as required by the plot, nothing more.
"Bionic Woman" would have worked if it had taken itself a bit more seriously and created a grittier environment. It still could have had girl-power and even moments of sisterhood (Summer's relationship with her younger sister plays big in the show). It just wouldn't have been overwhelmed by these aspects.
And they just should have left the humor alone. This is not "Boston Legal." When Danny Crane speaks it's funny. When Jamie Summers whines it's not. Nor should she be funny. That's not what makes a bionic woman interesting. Given all of the issues they could have tackled - gender roles, sexism, medical ethics, terrorism, or just Summers adapting to such a freakish outcome in her life - it's astonishing that they didn't make a better show.
Not that bad 2008-06-09
This re-make of the classic series Bionic Woman is not as wretched as some would like to say. Overall it suffers from a slightly dull athmosphere, and it is true that the writing could have been tighter but the acting is rather good and the effects are first-rate even if they are somewhat in the background. So the story is quite simple, underachieving bartender Jamie Summers is almost killed during an accident and re-built by her experimental-surgeon boyfriend. Afterwards it is quite straightforward. But as I wrote it is not as bad as some other reviewers put it.
an entertaining remake 2008-06-04
Following a car accident, Will Anthros (Bowers) thanks to his surgeon capabilities and technological knowledge, does not lose his girlfriend, Jaime Sommers: instead, she wakes up to find herself with bionics in her body: her right ear, right eye, right arm, and both legs. Will she help the good guys with her fifty million dollars technology?
This is quite obviously a remake of the tv series "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner, and is in no way any better or worse than the original tv series.
The actors' performances isn't top notch quality. Michelle Ryan is not a bad actress, Lucy Bale's acting got on my nerves (she plays the 15-year-old sister who just doesn't look 15 at all), and Miguel Ferrer is basically the only reason I was interested in watching the show: he is quite good here. As was Chris Bowers, who unfortunately only had a short role that lasted 2 episodes.
It's too bad the series is an Alias wannabe. The team has Sommers and her partners travel from 1 country to the next, and it just feels like a lower quality than Alias.
Still, it's an enjoyable, entertaining series with a predictable ending for each episode. No thrills or surprises.
