We meet Gib’s dad, who is also on the periphery of the security business via the weapons manufacturing business he founded.

This leads to a ton of parent/child strife with accusations of neglect and lack of understanding, etc. The problem: all these fights are taking place in the midst of a crisis. Terrorists took over his dad’s company, and Omega needs to take it back and rescue all the employees held hostage inside.

So while Henry, Luther, and Maria lurk in the high-security building’s basement, Helen, Gib and Gibs’ dad try to supply them with the intelligence they need to get the job done. Some missions are a lost cause from the get-go. The show again presents Helen as a peacemaker and a voice of reason in the group, trying to smooth out relations among them.

Points for the attempt to build up the amateur outsider and wanting to make her critical to the team. Loss of points for the execution. All the angst and personal fights/debates during missions make the Omega team look like the most inept group of spies ever with zero ability to focus on the task at hand.

The other ongoing personal drama is evidently that Harry never accepts help. Never mind that he’s been a member of (the leader of?) this team for seventeen years and they allegedly work really well together. He’s injured and it falls to Helen, rather than to any of the team members actually with him, to persuade him to accept help.

As seems to be the pattern the plot appears to be incidental, serving only to enable viewers to get to know the characters better. The problem is, when the characters themselves appear to be perpetually distracted from the plot, they look really bad.

Perhaps surprisingly, I still like the cast and believe the show has potential. It needs to resolve its identity crisis. It should either embrace the humor and character-driven conflicts, and ditch the cartoon danger, or quit injecting the adolescent angst into the missions.

Verdict: Daddy issues threaten to derail the current mission. 5/10

Rigel Ailur

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