Instead, I ranked every home-brew solution MacGyver MacGyvers in “The Rising,” based on ingenuity, degree of difficulty, and the context in which it was used. I will explain all of this in detail, but not chronologically, because this show is so boring and generic that each beat is like a subway train on a particularly bad day, shrieking its way into the station and making itself known well before it arrives. She dies like ten minutes into the episode and we’re supposed to feel bad about it. As for the rest of the cast, there’s Muscle Dude, Hacker Lady, Funny Roommate, and Woman Who MacGyver Might Have Loved. Till is handsome and smug enough to carry MacGyver mantle with some modicum of self-respect and swagger, so he’s a fine choice. In Lucas Till, at least the show has found a worthy successor to Richard Dean Anderson’s rich, wondrous mane. To its credit, it does know that the second-most important thing about MacGyver is his hair. The MacGyver reboot doesn’t seem to know this. We are, all of us, little MacGuyvers, forever Googling the best ways to fix our home theaters and minimize clutter. Between MacGyver’s 1992 finale and this modern-day CBS reboot, everyone has become a “life hacker” or whatever, making Angus MacGyver seem less like the Junk Drawer Jesus he used to be and more like your high-school friend who posts clever interior decorating ideas on Pinterest.
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The very thing that turned the original series into a household name - a clever dude improvising his way out of jams with everyday junk - is such a simple collection of quirks that you can sprinkle them on a handsome dude, stir in equal parts Miami and Bruce Campbell, and - voila! - you’ve got Burn Notice. MacGyver suffers from an acute case of the Shoblem. It’s what happens when a character is defined by traits so spare that you can transplant them anywhere, ascribe them to anyone, and probably find an audience. This is what I call The Sherlock Problem (or Shoblem, for short).
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Soon enough, TV stopped bothering with the ruse and just started making shows like Sherlock and Elementary. Years ago, TV producers began taking the Holmes template - a brilliant, prickly outsider with a crippling flaw - tweaking this or that little detail, and calling the finished product something like Monk or House or Psych. You know Sherlock Holmes? Smartest detective in London, always gets his man, has a bit of a cocaine problem? Well, television loves Sherlock Holmes.