SERIES REVIEWS: TRACKER. SEASON 1. EPISODE 13 (FINAL SEASON)
Little This is Us reunion in this episode with the presence of Jennifer Morrison. But that doesn’t make this episode a great success. Until now, Tracker has tended to improve its mechanics in order to deliver something different and new. What I discovered in this season finale is that Tracker doesn’t have much new to offer us. On the contrary, I find that we are faced with a very generic plot here. We are supposed to have emotion but here too nothing takes hold, nothing really works. In this episode, two storm chasers will discover something strange. Teddi and Velma need Colter but he helps Lizzy. From a narrative point of view, I must admit that it is an ultra lazy season finale. If Tracker tries to develop Colter’s character a little more in its own way, I find that the whole thing doesn’t work at all. It’s even extremely disappointing because the writers don’t seem to know what they want to do.
It’s not always easy to conclude a season but from what we see here, we feel that the writers are running out of steam. All’s well that ends well but it’s clearly the chemistry between Jennifer Morrison and Justin Hartley that makes this episode work best. The two actors having already worked together, they necessarily share something on screen that works. I’m not sure what to expect from the Tracker sequel. The series has delivered some good episodes and increased the tension throughout them, but I find that it is quite lazy with what I see in this episode. “The Storm” prefers to focus on the antics of each character rather than anything else. I find that a shame because it’s not Tracker’s strong point. The emotions aren’t really well written and we end up with a crazy amount of generic dialogue.
Tracker’s mistake is precisely to have difficulty creating emotion where it could really do so. I don’t really know what the sequel wants to tell us but Tracker will really have to do a job of developing characters to better attach us to them. Because for the moment, we cannot say that I am particularly attached to the characters that we see on the screen. It’s even extremely disappointing in many ways.
