Television: Nikita

It’s not that I necessarily needed something new to watch. I don’t. I have plenty of television shows queued up in one way or another for me to watch.

But recently, I was talked into watching Nikita. I had downloaded the first episode because it was one of the shows that would have conflicted with other shows on the DVR but I never got around to watching it. So I had s01e01 since the day after it aired and it sat in my downloads folder, just waiting for me to open it up.

I had never watched La Femme Nikita but I suppose that the premise is the same: black ops organization trains some hot, young thing to be a gold star assassin. And then everything goes wrong when she escapes and decides to take down the whole operation. Sound about right? I mean, both series were based off of the French film… right? Regardless, it’s your usual “good guy spy in a rogue operation” story with the main component being an attractive, kick-ass woman. Enter Nikita, played by Maggie Q. While I am a sucker for a good action flick, and an even bigger sucker for a pretty faced action heroine, nothing had grabbed my attention about the series.

And then I watched it.

I watched the first three episodes, back to back, before forcing myself to slow down and take a break. Withdrawal symptoms from a crash diet of a new television show are never pretty. Pacing myself, I decided to instead completely and utterly fangirl over the series with the person who had turned me onto it just yesterday. That didn’t help. Oddly enough, I don’t even know why I am enjoying the series so much. It is predictable and the characters aren’t very deep. Not a single one of them. Nikita is nice to look at, Michael is fun to watch (just to see how many scowls he can do–ooh! Drinking game!), Birkhoff is fun to watch and listen to, and Alex is… pretty? Jaden is pretty but I don’t like the actress’ voice for some reason and the character is a bitch. You aren’t meant to like her but I cannot even stand listening to her. Thom is… not even a blip on my radar, sadly. Supposedly he is a bigger player later.

Wait, I was supposed to be garnering more fans for this show.

Okay! So some of the banter is fun. Especially between genius hacker!boy Birkhoff and, well, just about everyone. He has this attitude of why must he be surrounded by people so below his level of intelligence and yet can’t seem to keep his mouth shut as he inadvertently causes the Big Wigs to believe that he is the mole. You know, because he is the only person capable of hacking into the system that he designed and–oops?

Oh to Hell with it. Just go watch it.