If you're looking for a quick refresher course in what the U.S. Marshals do for a living, or just need to know how many fugitives they caught last year (more than 90,000), Chase could be the show for you. But if you're looking for actual TV entertainment? Heavens, no.
One can hope that once they get past the pilot, the writers will cut back on the most egregiously clumsy expository dialogue and fight the urge to tell us how great their heroine is at her job when they should just show us. But nothing in the dialogue, from the forced banter to the thudding way biographical details are dropped into supposedly casual conversations, gives you any reason to think hope is well-founded.
Kelli Giddish, who was the best thing about the otherwise wisely forgotten Past Life, is also the best thing here as U.S. Marshal Annie Frost, called "Boots" because she wears boots. She heads up an elite team that is stuck training a rookie (a gravity-deficient Jesse Metcalfe), who exists solely so the rest of the team members can explain what they're doing to him and us.
If only what they were doing really needed an explanation. This is plotting at its most basic: chase, catch, repeat, without any twists that even merit the term. True, there is a decent performance by Travis Fimmel as Monday's runner. But he'll be gone next week.
You're advised to follow suit.
Chase
NBC, Monday, 10 ET/PT
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